The 19-year-old Ingrid Oliveira “Sol” Bueno de Silva was a professional player of Call of Duty: Mobile in Brazil. According to a report, she was murdered on February 23, 2021, by another professional player. He claims to have planned the act weeks in advance. He also spread videos of the body online.
This is known about the act: According to reports from Brazilian media, the 19-year-old Sol met the professional player Guilherme “Flashlight” Alves Costa online. Their mutual love for Call of Duty connected the two.
After about a month of virtual contact, the 19-year-old visited the player Flashlight at his apartment to play together.
There, he allegedly stabbed her multiple times and murdered her.
Sol’s body was found in Flashlight’s apartment in Pirituba, in the north of São Paulo. Flashlight turned himself in to the police 30 minutes after the act.
There is a video of his arrest. He says in handcuffs: He wanted it this way. He is of sound mind.
The case has been classified as murder by the police.
Flashlight spread video of the act via WhatsApp
How was the murderer discovered? According to reports, Flashlight created a video with the body after the act and spread it on WhatsApp. One of the groups there, the e-sports clan “Gamers Elite Organization,” forwarded the information to the police and instructed members not to share the images.
The organization stated: Flashlight sent the group a video on WhatsApp in which he apparently just killed a woman, filmed the murder, and is now spreading it online.
Furthermore, it is said that there was a text file attached, in which Flashlight expressed his hatred towards Christians. The clan’s leadership subsequently notified the authorities.
As e-sports journalist Rod Breslau reported, Flashlight also apparently sent these images to a professor in Brazil.
This is what the alleged murderer says: He says: “My mind is completely intact. I wanted to do this.”
He further states that he planned the act two weeks in advance. She “crossed his path.” He explained the motives for his actions in diaries he sent to friends.
This is what the victim’s organization says: From the e-sports clan of the deceased, it is said:
“She was an extraordinary person, whom we will think of every day the sun rises, every day the sun touches our bodies, every time we look at the sun, we will think of her.”
E-Sport Clan FBI
Other organizations in Brazil point out that the murder of Ingrid Oliveira Bueno da Silva is a femicide, a deliberate killing of a woman simply because she is a woman. According to a statistical survey, in 2018, 4,519 women were murdered in Brazil, one woman every two hours.
The case shocks people in Brazil and worldwide.
Court sentences confessing murderer to 14 years in prison
Update August 17, 2022: About one and a half years after the act and his confession, a court in São Paulo found the accused Guilherme Alves Costa, known as “Flashlight,” guilty of murder.
He was sentenced to 14 years in prison on Monday, August 15, 2022. He cannot appeal this decision (via sportskeeda).
