A surveillance video camera captured the moment a young woman placed two cellphones in a fire extinguisher box in the hallway of her apartment building and returned to her home, where her older boyfriend shot her dead before killing himself.
Eduarda Gorgik, 25, and her boyfriend Sérgio Correa, 59, were found dead in their home in the southern city of Itapema on Sunday.
The security camera showed Gorgik walking out of the apartment at 5:21 p.m. on Saturday, standing in front of the wall where the fire extinguisher was placed and leaving the couples’ cellphones behind.
Santa Catarina Civil Police Chief Ícaro Malveira said witnesses heard no gunshots or sounds of a fight from the couple’s apartment. The couple was found dead by an associate of Correa, who visited the house after not answering his calls.
Eduarda Gorgik, 25, was found dead on Sunday in the apartment in Itapema, Brazil that she shared with her boyfriend, who allegedly shot her dead before killing himself
Sérgio Correa, 59, allegedly shot dead his girlfriend before using his own gun to commit suicide in the apartment they shared in the southern Brazilian state of Santa Catarina
Gorgik was filmed on Saturday by a surveillance camera that placed two of her and her boyfriend’s cellphones in the fire extinguisher next to their apartment.
The cellphones could help determine a motive, which is still unknown, police said.
“We still don’t know why the mobile phones were placed in the extinguisher (box), but the expert report and explanation will certainly dispel this doubt,” Malveira said, as quoted by Brazilian news channel G1.
The couple’s iPhones were locked when recovered and were transferred to the Civil Police Office in Florianópolis as part of the investigation.
Additional security cameras checked by police showed Gorgik and Correa getting off the elevator and walking into their home at 4:30 p.m.
They were last seen by neighbors at a barbecue in the building’s banquet room.
The employee who found the couple told police that he contacted Correa’s sister, who had the keys to the apartment, but they could not enter the house because the door was blocked from the inside.
Authorities aren’t sure why Gorgik hid her and her boyfriend’s cellphones in the fire extinguisher closet next to the apartment they shared
Authorities are trying to access the cellphones of Gorgik and her boyfriend Sérgio Correa to see if there was a motive behind the murder-suicide.
The man was able to enter the apartment through a balcony that was shared with the neighboring house.
He was unable to open the balcony door and then broke the glass before noticing that Gorgik and Correa were dead.
Malveira said Correa has been investigated in the past for a domestic violence incident reported by a former partner.
“She (Gorgik) had no case against him,” he said. “In our system there was only one case of domestic violence against him, but in the past it was against another woman.”
Relatives of both victims are expected to be interviewed Thursday, Malveira said.