A suspected organized crime boss in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro was killed Friday in a shoot-out with police as they tried to arrest him, local authorities said. Rio’s civil police said in a statement that Rui Paulo Goncalves Estevao, also known as “Pipito,” was the alleged head of an organized criminal group accused of extortion and sowing terror in the city.

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