Brazil man dies after shocking video shows ‘wife setting him on fire in the middle of a store before watching him run out in flames’
- André Chapeta died Friday morning in a Rio de Janeiro hospital from burns he suffered after allegedly being set on fire by his wife, Ana María Paixaõ
- On Monday, the 50-year-old victim was sitting at a table at the fish market. Paixaõ doused him with flammable liquid and lit a lighter.
- Paixaõ was taken to a police station on Thursday morning but was released later in the day because a judge had not approved an arrest warrant
A man has died after his wife allegedly flew into a jealous rage and set him on fire at a fish market she owns in Brazil.
50-year-old André Chapeta died on Friday from injuries sustained after his wife doused him with a flammable liquid.
The incident took place on Monday in a store in Rio de Janeiro when Ana María Paixaõ saw Chapeta sitting at a table.
A surveillance camera showed Paixaõ walking past the counter and opening a bottle before pouring it over his body.
The woman allegedly lit a lighter and immediately set him on fire.
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André Chapeta (left) died Friday morning, four days after his wife, Ana María Paixaõ (right), doused him with a flammable liquid and set him on fire. Paixaõ was arrested by police on Thursday morning, but was released overnight after a court failed to sign an arrest warrant
Ana María Paixaõ kicks at her husband, André Chapeta, as he burst into flames moments after she set him on fire at her fish market in Rio de Janeiro on Monday. Chapeta died on Friday from the injuries he sustained
Chapeta as he was covered in flames and ran into the fish market pantry.
He was rushed to Getúlio Vargas Hospital, where he was treated for burns to 92 percent of his body before succumbing to his injuries on Friday.
Paixaõ was arrested by police on Thursday morning but released overnight after a judge failed to sign an arrest warrant.
Civilian police chief Flávio Ferreira told Brazilian news channel G1 that he believes the incident was motivated by the woman's jealousy of her husband.
He told the channel R7 that the couple's 30-year relationship was reportedly marked by bouts of domestic violence.
André Chapeta suffered burns to 92 percent of his body after his wife set him on fire Monday in a Rio de Janeiro fish market she owns
Ana María Paixaõ walks out of the storeroom of her fish market with a bottle containing a flammable liquid that she used to set her husband on fire. She told police investigators she was defending herself after he hit her, a claim they denied
Ana María Paixaõ stands next to her husband, André Chapeta, before she poured a flammable liquid on him and set him on fire at a fish market she owns in Rio de Janeiro on Monday evening
Rio de Janeiro's civil police said the couple's 30-year relationship was filled with incidents of domestic violence
Paixaõ told investigators she was beaten before setting Chapeta on fire and responded in self-defense, a claim they rejected.
“What she says is not what the image shows. The image shows the victim sitting in a chair. She arrives cool, throws the liquid and sets it on fire,” Ferreira said.
'She was not in a vulnerable situation at that time, she was not in a situation where she would be directly attacked.
“On the contrary, as I said, he was sitting and posed no threat to her physical integrity at the time.”