The man who held 17 hostages at gunpoint, including elderly people and children, on board a bus in the Novo Rio bus station, in the center of Rio de Janeiro. At the end of three very long hours of tension, and after having refused several times to negotiate with the agents of the Special Operations Battalion of the police, the young man gave in, handed himself over to the police.

The causes that pushed Paulo Sergio Lima to shoot two people, one of them seriously injured, before taking control of the bus are still unknown.