Image copyright AFP/Getty Images Image caption Marielle Franco's murder shocked the nation

She and her driver, Anderson Pedro Gomes, were both killed, and her press officer, who was sitting in the back seat of the car, was injured. He delayed a previously-scheduled event at the presidential palace to hold a cabinet meeting on Rio's security, and said the federal police was willing to help with the investigations. Marielle Franco was elected with the leftist Socialist and Freedom Party (PSOL) in 2016 as the fifth most voted councillor in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil's second-largest city with a population of over six million. A day before she was killed, Franco asked on Twitter how many more deaths would be necessary for the situation to improve.
Brazilian politician and outspoken police critic Marielle Franco is killed along with her driver in a drive-by shooting in Rio de Janeiro.