Survivor Recounts Lisbon Barber Shop Triple Homicide: 'I Duck and the Bullet Passed Over Me'

Survivor Recounts Lisbon Barber Shop Triple Homicide

Fábio Ferreira could have been the fourth victim executed by gunfire by Fernando Silva at the Granda Pente barbershop in the Vale neighborhood of Lisbon on the afternoon of October 2 last year. This assurance was given by the survivor himself during the first session of the trial for the triple homicide of Carlos Pina, Bruno Neto, and Fernanda Júlia, which began this Thursday.

The Attack Unfolds

"He entered the barbershop and said: 'You're going to cut my hair!' Pina told him to wait a little, that he was having lunch. Fernando repeated the same phrase and Pina maintained his stance. Then Fernando put the gun to his head and fired. At that moment, Bruno confronted him and said 'was this necessary?'. Fernando put the gun to his forehead and fired, already outside the barbershop. Bruno's wife, Fernanda, screamed and he fired again, also in her head. Then he turned to the street. I took the opportunity to flee to one side and the boy whose hair I was cutting to the other. He heard the footsteps, turned and fired at me. By instinct I ducked and the bullet passed over me. It hit the shop window. He started heading towards the family car. I went back to the barbershop to get my phone and check on Pina... He was already... And then I fled...", Fábio recounted in court.

The Accused's Behavior

Fernando Silva, deemed imputable by experts, did not want to speak during the first session. He only said, when identified by the judges, that he did not know what the accusation was or what he was doing there, what his full name was, nor the name of his father or mother, who helped him flee. Regarding his current address, he only said that he lives with the police.