{"id":29251,"date":"2025-06-30T13:34:25","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T13:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=29251"},"modified":"2025-06-30T13:34:25","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T13:34:25","slug":"horrifying-moment-road-rage-killer-shoots-toddler-in-the-head-after-family-car-honks-at-him-to-move-out-of-their-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=29251","title":{"rendered":"Horrifying moment road rage killer shoots toddler in the head after family car honks at him to move out of their way"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This is the horrifying moment a driver shot a 23-month-old girl in the head in a road rage attack.<\/p>\n

The killer, identified as pick-up truck driver Alex de Oliveira Nunes, had seconds earlier pulled over to let a family saloon pass him when it honked at him to get by.<\/p>\n

But grim CCTV footage filmed in Areia Branca, in Sergipe, in\u00a0Brazil<\/a><\/span>, on June 24 shows how 28-year-old Nunes then began tailgating the tiny hatchback.<\/p>\n

As he pulls closer, a hand with a pistol emerges from the driver’s window and fires twice at the car in front.<\/p>\n

Terrified, the hatchback driver tries to get away but is followed by Nunes’ pick-up truck as the clip comes to an end.<\/p>\n

Toddler Layla Sofia Santos Menezes died instantly when one of he bullets hit her in the head, police told local media.<\/p>\n

He reportedly fled the scene, and was arrested hours later at his home.<\/p>\n

Nunes, who was drunk at the time, later told the police that he had opened fire to ‘scare’ the other driver.<\/p>\n

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Nunes is being held in custody while police investigate the killing<\/p>\n

Police spokesperson Miguel Maximino said Nunes has neither a gun licence nor a driving licence.<\/p>\n

Maximino added: ‘He says he was drunk and that he didn’t know who was in the other vehicle.’<\/p>\n

Nunes is being held in custody while police investigate the killing.<\/p>\n

He reportedly told cops that he bought the gun from another truck driver two years prior.<\/p>\n

The child’s family told local media that they were less than 100m (330ft) from their home when she was killed.<\/p>\n

Val\u00e9ria dos Santos, the child’s mother, said: ‘We stopped next to a church, I got out with her in my arms asking for help, she was already sighing.’<\/p>\n

She was buried on June 25 in\u00a0Povoado Rio das Pedras, in Itabaiana.<\/p>\n

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