The gory moment that a 100-year-old woman’s dead body was pushed in a wheelchair through the streets of Brazil was caught on camera.
Aurora Marques passed away at her home on Tuesday after a short illness, according to her son who spoke to the Rio de Janeiro Civil Police.
Marques’ son said she had been sick since January 7, after their landlord told them that they were going to be removed from their home in Campinho.
But things took a turn for the worst on Tuesday when the 100-year-old told her son that she suddenly didn’t feel well – and died just moments later.
The grieving son contacted the Mobil Emergency Care Service, who dispatched paramedics to the scene. Marques’ death was registered by a doctor, who told the man that the Social Assistance Department would retrieve the body.
But the man became restless because his mother’s body remained in the home overnight because they didn’t show up – so he decided to transport it to a Social Assistance Referral Centre himself on Wednesday morning.
He hoisted his mother’s dead body into a wheelchair, covering the majority of her corpse with a black blanket, before starting the somber journey.
As he was pushing the wheelchair down the street, local drug dealers allegedly confronted him and accused him of killing Marques. One local screamed at him: ‘You’re messed up.’
He hoisted his mother’s dead body into a wheelchair, covering the majority of her corpse with a black blanket, before starting the somber journey
The man became restless because his mother’s body remained in the home overnight because they didn’t show up – so he decided to transport it himself Wednesday morning
The body of 100-year-old Aurora Marques was spotted in a wheelchair on a Rio de Janeiro street on Wednesday
Marques’ body was removed from the street and taken to a local morgue. An autopsy is pending.
Her unnamed son was taken to a police station to be questioned.
In a statement, the Mobil Emergency Care Service said that it had contacted the family to pick up the body and schedule a free burial, but that all phone calls went unanswered.
The Social Welfare Department said in a statement it is also providing a free burial to the family and is awaiting to be contacted by Marques’ son.
The Civil Police said it has opened an investigation the elderly woman’s death.
The incident was reminiscent of the report from April 2024 when the corpse of Paulo Braga, 68, was wheeled by his niece, Erika Nunes, 43, into a Rio de Janeiro bank branch.
Viral videos at the time showed Braga slumped on the chair as Nunes attempted to take out a loan under his name.
