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Brazil
A Brazilian was so upset at his daughter dating a guy that he threatened him physically, running after him on the streets. The 39-year-old man can be seen arguing with the teenage boy at the cell phone store where the latter works in Vianópolis.
Surveillance footage shows the man following the young boy around a showcase. The boy looks frightened and tries to move away from him. But the man then pushes the showcase into the boy who runs away.
The man continues to pursue the boy and goes out of the store after him. The boy crosses onto the other side of the street, and the man follows him. He chases after him for several blocks and at one point takes out a gun and fires into the air.
The man then ran away and was ordered by the Goias Military Police order to pull over. However, he did not stop and was eventually arrested 49 miles away in Anapólis on Tuesday afternoon.
The police searched his vehicle and the man gave them an air gun which he claimed to have bought after the shooting incident. The cops soon found a .22 calibre revolver in his car. It was the same gun he had used while chasing the boy.
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The police took him to the Goias Civil Police station. He was questioned about firing the gun in the air and chasing the boy. He told the police that he only wanted to scare him so he wouldn't contact his daughter. He said he came to know that they had been talking after he saw his conversations on his daughter's cell phone.
The boy escaped the bizarre incident unharmed.
Man kills daughter's boyfriend
This is not the first time that such an incident has happened in Brazil. A man named Cleber Pires killed a 19-year-old in Goiânia as he did not want his 14-year-old daughter to date him.
He told the police that he attacked the victim in an act of self-defence as he came at him with a knife. Reportedly, he had called his daughter's boyfriend to his home on the pretext of having a conversation.