He was shot during Brazil's deadliest police raid. Now his wife is fighting to clear his name

Carine Ferreira dos Santos, wife of Douglas da Silva, who is hospitalized after being shot by police on the day of a deadly raid in the nearby Penha slum complex in October, shows bullet holes in her car in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil November 15, 2025. REUTERS/Pilar Olivares

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) -Distant gunfire rang out as Douglas da Silva dropped off a food delivery on October 28 and headed home to his apartment on the north side of Rio de Janeiro.

Hundreds of members of Rio's elite police forces had stormed a complex of favelas about a mile away, hunting members of the Comando Vermelho gang. A firefight was still raging that evening in the forested hills above his gated apartment complex.