On the night of Monday, August 26, 2024, a thirteen-year-old girl named Anna Beatriz Santos Tavares went with her younger sister and some friends to watch a football game at a sports club in the Vergel do Lago neighborhood of Maceió, the capital of the northeastern Brazilian state of Alagoas. According to what the girls told police, a grown man approached her at the club and tried to start something with her. She was not interested. He followed the group as they walked home toward the neighboring district of Levada, and close to her house he shot her. People nearby took her to the Hospital Geral do Estado, where she died.
Her family told the police she had no involvement with drugs or crime. They thought the killer had wanted a relationship with her and that she had turned him down. Three weeks later, the police arrested a forty-two-year-old man who lived a few hundred meters away. When they examined his pistol and his phone, they concluded that the killing of Anna Beatriz was not the first. By the police count presented five months later, it was the eighteenth killing they attributed to him. Juries have since convicted him of eight of those deaths; the killing of Anna Beatriz is among those still awaiting trial.
Albino Santos de Lima was in his early forties when he was arrested. Reports in 2024 give his age as 42 or 43; by 2026 Alagoas reporters were giving it as 44. Local reports say he went by the nickname "Formiga," which means ant. He was the son of a military police officer, by then retired from the force, and for about fifteen years he had worked as an outsourced security worker in the Alagoas prison system, attached to the state secretariat for resocialization and social inclusion (Seris). When he was arrested he was on leave from that job, drawing national social security benefits after a motorcycle accident. Asked in 2025 by a judge what profession he had exercised before the charges, he corrected the tense. "Not exercised, I exercise it, Your Honor," he said. "I'm only on leave. I am a prison officer."
In 2019 and 2020 he lived in Jardim Petrópolis, in the upper part of Maceió. By 2023 he lived in Vergel do Lago, in the low-lying district along the city's lagoon shore, and attended a church in the neighborhood, according to TNH1. He had been married; at his first trial his former wife testified for the prosecution about what prosecutors described as his aggressive behavior.
He had a criminal record before the killings were known. In November 2023 a Maceió court convicted him of religious discrimination and sentenced him to a year and six months, converted into community service. In August 2021, security cameras recorded him pretending to look at his phone and then puncturing the tires of cars parked outside the Aldeia dos Orixás, an Umbanda house of worship in Vergel do Lago, during a ceremony. He admitted damaging the cars but said the noise had bothered him. The leader of the terreiro testified that he had picked out only the cars of people attending the ritual and had phoned the police asking for the gatherings to stop. Judge Ygor Figueirêdo rejected the noise explanation, noting that there had been no earlier complaints and that a Christian church nearby had not been targeted. TNH1 reported that he had also faced earlier cases for illegal possession of a firearm, property damage and drug use.
None of the killings in the upper city was connected to Albino Santos de Lima until after his arrest in 2024. They were solved in a second phase of the investigation, from late 2024 to February 2025, after police recovered files from his phone that referred to deaths in 2019 and 2020.
The first death police attribute to him is that of Genilda Maria da Conceição, who was 71. She was a homemaker who lived with her grandson and was raising him; her son told TNH1 that she "did everything for him." On the morning of February 6, 2019, according to the police list and TNH1's trial coverage, she was walking the boy, then 11, to school along a lane known as the Beco de Zé Miguel when a gunman shot her in the back. She died at the emergency hospital. The boy was not hurt. At first, her son said, the family was told it had been a robbery. Neighbors and family described her as a peaceful woman devoted to her family.
On the boy's description, police produced a sketch, and another man, who had had disagreements with Genilda, was charged with her murder. His jury trial was set for March 6, 2025. It was suspended after investigators found Genilda's name in Lima's files and he confessed to killing her. According to the police, she was the only victim he acknowledged had no link to crime. He said he did not like her and that she was a difficult person in the neighborhood. His lawyer told a local website that Lima regarded her as a drug courier, a claim the police rejected.
According to the list the Alagoas Civil Police presented on February 25, 2025, the other victims of that first period were Alysson Santos Silva, killed on October 20, 2019; Marcelo Lopes dos Santos, 29, on November 29, 2019; José Cícero Bernardo da Silva, 51, on December 8, 2019; Maria Vânia da Silva Nunes and João Santos Mateus, both on December 23, 2019; and Antônio de Oliveira Melo Neto, 36, and Maria Claudiana da Silva, 35, together. The police list dates the last double killing to December 17, 2020; a TNH1 report from 2026 places it in February 2020. The police said the eight victims of this period were five men and three women, aged between 16 and 71, and that Lima had no relationship with any of them.
In these earlier killings, according to the police, he used a .38 revolver. He told investigators he had got it from a relative who had since died and later threw it in a river; it was never found. The state crime laboratory matched bullets from seven of the eight victims to a single .38. Police also recovered video of the killing of Alysson Santos Silva, in which at least five witnesses later recognized Lima. In this period, police said, he usually struck in daylight, early in the morning when few people were on the street, and watched his targets in person rather than online.
From October 2023, according to the police, the killings moved to the low-lying districts of Vergel do Lago, Levada and Ponta Grossa, all within about 800 to 850 meters of his house. Juries have since convicted him of six of the ten killings police attribute to him there. By then he had his father's pistol, a .380 Taurus. Police said he usually went out at night, on foot, dressed in black, with a cap pulled down or a balaclava, and that he chose his victims on Instagram and followed their lives for weeks or months before he acted. The young women, police said, shared a look: young, brown-skinned or Black, usually with curly hair. The men were often their boyfriends or partners.
Mikaele Leite da Silva, 21, was the first, on October 29, 2023. She lived with her mother two streets from where she was shot, near the Padaria do Tenório bakery in the Joaquim Leão housing estate in Vergel do Lago. She was the youngest of four siblings, and she left a son. The prosecution said she was shot from behind and had no chance to defend herself.
Louise Gybson Vieira de Melo, a trans woman whom CNN Brasil gave as 18, was killed on December 11, 2023. She was walking home from school at about 9:45 p.m. She thought a car was following her and asked a friend to walk with her. Near her house the car seemed to have gone, and then a man in black, of medium height, came up and shot her.
Beatriz Henrique da Silva, 25, was killed on December 15, 2023, at her home on Rua Cabo Reis in Ponta Grossa. According to the prosecution, Lima entered the house and fired while she was asleep beside her four-year-old son. Reports from 2024 said the child was not hit; the prosecution's case at trial in 2025 was that one shot struck him, and Lima was convicted of bodily injury to the boy.
On December 18, 2023, Débora Vitória Silva dos Santos, 21, and her boyfriend, John Lenno Santos Ferreira, 20, were shot in Vergel do Lago. Police described them as an evangelical Christian couple. At the time, the investigators thought John Lenno had been the target and Débora had been killed by mistake. Her mother, Elisângela dos Santos, said she had assumed they were killed in a robbery. "I'm afraid to sleep at night," she said in 2025. "I lost my daughter, nothing is the same. My children have changed, because they miss her so much."
Joseildo Siqueira Silva Filho, 24, whom reports also call José Ildo and who was known as Pikeno, was killed on January 8, 2024, on Rua Messias de Gusmão in Ponta Grossa. He lived in Vila Brejal, unloaded trucks of vegetables and carried produce around the market for a living, and spent his free time making comedy and dance videos for social media. His family told TNH1 his hero was Alex NSC, a rapper from the interior of Alagoas. He was walking with a friend when Lima followed them and shot him from behind; police later obtained video of the pursuit. Investigators concluded that Lima had become fixated on Joseildo's partner, who resembled his other victims, and had killed him to get closer to her. Lima had taken screenshots of her profile.
On June 8, 2024, Tâmara Vanessa da Silva Santos, 21, was shot in Ponta Grossa while she was with Leidjane Gomes de Freitas, a mãe de santo, or priestess of the Candomblé religion, and José Gustavo Carvalho. The three had been in the street cutting vegetables for a Candomblé event. All three were taken to the state hospital. Tâmara died; the other two survived with lasting injuries.
On June 12, 2024, Alan Vitor dos Santos Soares, then 20, was walking home from work to his grandmother's house in Vergel do Lago when he realized someone was following him. He was shot four times. He spent thirty days in a coma and survived with permanent injuries.
Emerson Wagner da Silva was killed on June 21, 2024, in Ponta Grossa. He was a young barber whose customers were mostly young people from the neighborhood; CNN Brasil gave his age as 17. According to the prosecution, Lima had tried to get into the house of Emerson's girlfriend, a teenager who matched the profile of his other victims, and failed only because the door was locked. Emerson and a friend followed him to confront him. Lima drew a gun and fired at both. Emerson died; the friend escaped.
Ana Clara Santos Lima, 13, was killed in Vergel do Lago in August 2024. TNH1 and the trial reports date her death to August 3; one CNN Brasil list gives August 26, the date of Anna Beatriz's killing. She realized on the way home that she was being followed and ran into a neighbor's house for shelter; the man followed her inside and shot her there. Her aunts described a cheerful girl who loved to dance and make videos with her friends, helped her mother, adored her cat, and wanted to become a mathematics teacher. She was her mother's only child. "She was my companion, she helped me so much at work," her mother, Piedade Wilma Melo dos Santos, said at the trial. "She was my everything, my life."
Anna Beatriz Santos Tavares was killed twenty-three days later. According to Metrópoles, it was her mother's birthday.
The case was first handled by Ronílson Medeiros, the on-duty delegado (police chief) of Maceió's Homicide and Personal Protection division (DHPP). He told TV Pajuçara that the family worked hard to support their children, that Anna Beatriz was in school, and that the police had found no sign of any connection to drug trafficking. He asked the public for information and said investigators had identified security cameras in the area.
On September 12, 2024, the DHPP released video of a man in a black shirt, black cap and jeans walking through the streets near the scene. It was shown on local television. Five days later, on the morning of September 17, officers led by DHPP coordinator Tacyane Ribeiro and delegado Francisco Medson, with a tactical unit, arrested Albino Santos de Lima at his home on a court warrant. Reports place the house in Vergel do Lago or Ponta Grossa. Officers seized a .380 pistol, ammunition, black clothing, a balaclava, masks, gloves and a mobile phone.
The pistol belonged to Lima's father, a reserve military police officer. Suely Maurício, a ballistics expert at the Maceió Institute of Criminalistics, compared it with bullets and casings collected at earlier scenes and removed at the medical examiner's office. "It was teamwork," she said, describing how the comparison made it possible "to identify, case by case, that the seized weapon was the same one used in the crimes." It matched ten killings in the lagoon neighborhoods. The pistol's ballistic profile was entered into the Justice Ministry's national ballistic database. Lima's father was also indicted, as the owner of the weapon.
The phone had been wiped, but examiners recovered the credentials to his accounts and from them his cloud storage. The examination, led by forensic expert José de Farias, produced a 105-page report. The files sat in two folders. One was named "Odiada Instagram," roughly "Hated, Instagram"; the other, "Mortes especiais," "special deaths." In them, according to Farias, photographs and names of homicide victims were placed alongside a calendar with the date of the killing marked. Lima had saved screenshots of news reports on the crimes and had taken photographs inside a cemetery, including of a gravestone, and selfies at the graves of at least two victims. There were also images of people still alive. "The experts found several photographs of individuals who are still alive; they would be potential victims," said delegado Gilson Rêgo, who led the inquiry. The files also contained records of killings in 2019 and 2020. In a charge filed in February 2025, prosecutor Antônio Vilas Boas wrote that Lima chose women out of repulsion toward women, researched their social media profiles for months and then followed them, and that besides the two folders he kept one called "investigar," "to investigate," for other possible victims.
In the week before November 17, 2024, Lima gave a new statement, in the presence of his lawyer, and admitted eight of the ten lagoon killings. He said his victims were all members of criminal factions. "She is also from a faction. They are all traffickers," he said in the statement, as broadcast by TV Globo's Fantástico. "I started to learn about him through Instagram. I started doing my own investigation." Asked whether he had meant to kill again, he said: "In the future, I was going to start making other plans and other executions." Coordinator Tacyane Ribeiro said none of the ten victims had any involvement with a criminal faction and that he showed no remorse. "It is a warning for people to take more care in showing their lives on social media," she said, "because nobody knows who is watching."
On November 18, 2024, the Civil Police and the Scientific Police presented the case at a press conference and named the ten victims. Rêgo called Lima "a predator, a serial killer, very cold and calculating." Lima had by then been indicted in three police inquiries for qualified homicide. By December 2024 there were fifteen inquiries open. On January 23, 2025, the state prosecutor's office (MPAL) filed formal charges in several of the lagoon killings, including those of Tâmara Vanessa, Débora Vitória and John Lenno, and Anna Beatriz, and asked that he stay in pretrial detention.
On February 25, 2025, the police announced the results of the second phase: eight more homicides and three more attempted homicides from 2019 and 2020, bringing the total attributed to him to eighteen killings and six attempts. Confronted with the evidence, Rêgo said, Lima confessed to all eight of the older killings and the three attempts. "He even knows how to say how many shots he hit each victim with and where on the body he hit them," Rêgo said. Of the eighteen, Lima denied only the double killing of Débora and John Lenno. "But with respect to that case we also have no doubt," Rêgo said, "because we have technical and scientific evidence." Police said none of the victims had been sexually assaulted, although files with sexual content were seized. He had watched one victim, they said, for more than six months.
He also gave investigators his reasons. He described himself as a vigilante who was cleaning up society, told police he had wanted to be "Charles Bronson," a reference to the Death Wish films, and said he had been "possessed by the fire of the Archangel Michael."
Alan Vitor dos Santos Soares, the young man who survived four gunshots in June 2024, recognized Lima from television reports about the killing of Emerson Wagner and went to the police himself. Investigators then found screenshots of Alan's social media profile on Lima's phone, with the date of the attack marked on a calendar.
Each of Lima's cases has gone separately to a jury (Tribunal do Júri), in the 7th, 8th and 9th criminal courts of Maceió, at the Fórum Desembargador Jairon Maia Fernandes in the Barro Duro district. His lawyer, Geoberto Bernardo de Luna (some reports give the surname as de Lima), said from the start that the defense would be based on mental illness. "His head is that of a sick person, a sociopath," Luna told TV Globo in November 2024. "Even if he is a serial killer, and that is confirmed, he has the right to a defense."
At pretrial hearings on March 21, 2025, in the cases of Louise Gybson and Tâmara Vanessa, Lima appeared by video link and said he did not remember the killings. "I was possessed by the fire of the Archangel Michael," he said. He said he heard voices and that the entity told him to go to cemeteries and photograph his victims' graves. A court-ordered psychiatric examination found that he was legally responsible: that he fully understood the unlawful character of his acts and could act on that understanding. Judge Yulli Roter told Rádio Pajuçara that the case file included a report pointing to psychopathic traits.
1. April 11, 2025, 8th Criminal Court. Emerson Wagner da Silva and the attempted killing of his friend. The survivor testified, as did Lima's former wife and her son-in-law. The defense argued self-defense. The jury convicted, and he was sentenced to 37 years, 1 month and 15 days. Prosecutor Thiago Riff said the conviction would serve as the reference for the trials to come.
2. June 6, 2025. Louise Gybson Vieira de Melo, prosecuted by Antônio Vilas Boas as a femicide committed for a base motive and by means that left her unable to defend herself. Sentence: 24 years and 6 months.
3. July 31, 2025, 7th Criminal Court, Judge Yulli Roter. Ana Clara Santos Lima. Lima, who had earlier recognized her photograph and confessed, now denied it. "I had no participation in this case," he said. "The ballistic test is not effective." Vilas Boas reminded him that at an earlier trial he had said he had killed more than twenty people. "Are you lying here or did you lie at the earlier trial?" the prosecutor asked. The ballistics expert's report, Vilas Boas told the jurors, showed that the bullet from the victim and the one collected at the scene came from Lima's weapon. Sentence: 24 years and 6 months.
4. September 4, 2025, 7th Criminal Court. The attempted killing of Alan Vitor dos Santos Soares. At the prosecution's request Alan, then 21, lifted his shirt to show the jury his scars and the ostomy bag he has had to wear since the shooting. "He can't do this to anyone else," he told TNH1. Sentence: 14 years and 7 months, and a fine of 50,000 reais.
5. October 31, 2025, 7th Criminal Court. Tâmara Vanessa da Silva Santos and the attempted killings of Leidjane Gomes de Freitas and José Gustavo Carvalho, both of whom testified. Lima, masked, said only: "I just confess what happened, but I want to remain silent." The defense argued insanity. Prosecutors said that neither Tâmara nor the survivors had any involvement in drug trafficking or prostitution, the excuse Lima offered in case after case. Sentence: 27 years and 1 month.
6. November 13, 2025. Beatriz Henrique da Silva, and bodily injury to her son. This time Lima said: "I did it, but I wasn't normal. I was asleep at home and the Archangel Michael woke me." He described Beatriz as a drug dealer; the police and the court had found no basis for that. "It's a horror film that seems like it will never end," Vilas Boas told the jurors. Sentence: 24 years, 11 months and 8 days.
7. March 5, 2026, before Judge Yulli Roter, with Antônio Vilas Boas prosecuting. Genilda Maria da Conceição. Lima denied the killing. He said he had confessed to the police while "delirious" and had begun denying it once he was fully conscious; in his police statement he had said he associated her with drug trafficking because people smoked marijuana near her house. Her son rejected that, saying the family itself had complained about drug users near the house. The jury convicted. Sentence: 22 years, 5 months and 15 days, which TNH1 reported brought the total to more than 175 years. "It was a surprise to find out that a serial killer killed her," her son said. "Justice exists, but not for those who die."
8. May 15, 2026, 8th Criminal Court, Judge Yulli Roter Maia. Joseildo Siqueira Silva Filho. Prosecutor Thiago Riff said it was the third version Lima had given: he first denied it, then attributed the killing to the Archangel Michael. Sentence: 29 years and a day. TNH1 reported the total at that point as 204 years, 2 months and 9 days.
9. October 7, 2026, 9th Criminal Court. Mikaele Leite da Silva. The charge filed before trial said he killed her because she would not resume a relationship with him. At trial, prosecutor Adilza de Freitas told the jury there had never been a relationship: the contact began during a live stream, when Lima, using an Instagram profile called @guerracomanf with an image of the Archangel Michael, offered Mikaele 250 reais for sex. She ignored him, and he then investigated her and followed her, the prosecutor said. Luna denied any approach or offer and again raised the Archangel Michael. "The jurors accepted the prosecution's request and found that he never was insane, and is not," de Freitas said after the verdict. Sentence: 30 years. The MPAL put his total at 234 years, 2 months and 13 days.
Through these trials Judge Roter described a defendant who was courteous and silent when sentences were read. "He has never shown remorse for what he did," the judge said. "He confesses and claims at the trials that in his head they were people involved in trafficking and that he was playing the role of a vigilante."
James's news watch reports that a further jury trial was held in Maceió on October 14, 2026. No verdict from that trial was known as of the latest source used here, so the totals below do not include it.
As of the October 9, 2026, Correio da Manhã report, the latest source found, Albino Santos de Lima was in custody in Maceió, where he has been held since September 17, 2024. In February 2025 he was reported to be at the Baldomero Cavalcanti prison. He stood convicted of eight homicides and of the attempted killings of five people, including the four-year-old boy he wounded, with sentences totaling 234 years, 2 months and 13 days, to be served, according to the sentences reported, initially in closed regime. Judge Yulli Roter has noted that the most he can actually serve is 40 years. No report found describes an appeal against any of the convictions.
As of that report, ten killings remained to be tried. In July 2026, TNH1 reported that three trials for killings from 2019 had been scheduled at the Barro Duro courthouse in November 2026: José Cícero Bernardo da Silva on November 4; Antônio de Oliveira Melo Neto and Maria Claudiana da Silva on November 15; and Marcelo Lopes dos Santos on November 25. The cases of Anna Beatriz Santos Tavares, Débora Vitória and John Lenno, Alysson Santos Silva, Maria Vânia da Silva Nunes and João Santos Mateus had not been tried by the time of the October 2026 verdict, as far as the sources found show. A search on October 14, 2026, found no later report. In August 2025 a judge held pretrial hearings in seven of these cases at once to speed them up.
The families have come to court repeatedly. In August 2025, relatives of Anna Beatriz protested outside the courthouse asking for her case to move faster, as the first anniversary of her death approached. "Even if he is sentenced to a hundred years in prison, it still isn't enough for what he did to her," said her aunt, Maria Judite. Ana Clara's family told TNH1 they had never heard of Lima until his face was shown on television after Anna Beatriz was killed, and recognized in that killing the pattern of their own girl's death.
The case had at least one consequence for someone outside the victims' families. The man charged in 2019 with killing Genilda Maria da Conceição, on the strength of a sketch and a neighborhood dispute, came within days of a jury trial before Lima's files and confession pointed the case elsewhere.
Investigators drew a lesson about social media. Tacyane Ribeiro used the November 2024 press conference to warn the public about how much of their lives they showed online. The police described the case as the most serious series of homicides in Maceió's recent history and described Lima as one of the five serial killers with the most victims in Brazil. They also cited the cooperation between the homicide division and the forensic institute; Charles Mariano, head of the Maceió Institute of Criminalistics, said the work had prevented further killings.
Convictions and allegations. Eight killings have been proven at trial. Ten others are allegations: charged by the prosecutor's office on police evidence, eight of them confessed to police, but not yet tried. Lima has confessed and later retracted in court more than once, and he has at various times said he killed two people, eight, sixteen and more than twenty.
The double killing of Débora and John Lenno. It is the one killing Lima has consistently denied. Police say ballistic evidence ties it to his pistol. It had not been tried as of the October 2026 reports.
Motive. Lima's account, that his victims belonged to criminal factions or were drug dealers and that he acted as a vigilante or on the orders of the Archangel Michael, has been rejected by the police, the prosecution and, in effect, by nine juries. Police and prosecutors describe a fixation on young women of a particular appearance and, in several cases, on the partners and friends of those women. The motive in Mikaele's case shifted between the charge (a refused reconciliation) and the trial (a refused offer of money); the trial account is the one the jury heard.
Mental state. The defense has argued insanity and possession; a court-ordered psychiatric examination found him legally responsible, and every jury has rejected the insanity claim.
The father. Lima's father was indicted by the police as owner of the pistol. No source found reports the outcome.
Numbers and dates. Sources disagree on several details. Genilda's age is given as 71 by the police and TNH1 and 75 by one report, and the date of her death as February 6, 2019 (police list and TNH1 trial coverage) or October 3, 2019 (one Tribuna do Sertão preview). The double killing of Antônio de Oliveira Melo Neto and Maria Claudiana da Silva is dated December 17, 2020, by police and February 2020 by a later report. Emerson Wagner da Silva's age is 17 in a 2024 list and 37 in a 2025 report. Ana Clara's death is dated August 3, 2024, in court reporting and August 26 in one list. Lima's age at arrest is reported as 42, 43 and, in one CNN Brasil story, 47. Mikaele's killing is dated October 2023 by police and court reporting and "2024" in one TNH1 article.
February 6, 2019: Genilda Maria da Conceição, 71, is shot in the Beco de Zé Miguel; another man is later charged.
October 20 to December 23, 2019: Alysson Santos Silva, Marcelo Lopes dos Santos, José Cícero Bernardo da Silva, Maria Vânia da Silva Nunes and João Santos Mateus are killed in the upper city.
2020: Antônio de Oliveira Melo Neto and Maria Claudiana da Silva are killed.
August 2021: Lima punctures tires outside the Aldeia dos Orixás terreiro.
October 29, 2023: Mikaele Leite da Silva is killed in Vergel do Lago.
November 2023: Lima is convicted of religious discrimination.
December 11, 15 and 18, 2023: Louise Gybson Vieira de Melo; Beatriz Henrique da Silva; Débora Vitória Silva dos Santos and John Lenno Santos Ferreira.
January 8, 2024: Joseildo Siqueira Silva Filho is killed in Ponta Grossa.
June 8, 12 and 21, 2024: Tâmara Vanessa da Silva Santos is killed and two people wounded; Alan Vitor dos Santos Soares is shot and survives; Emerson Wagner da Silva is killed.
August 2024: Ana Clara Santos Lima, 13, is killed.
August 26, 2024: Anna Beatriz Santos Tavares, 13, is killed.
September 12, 2024: Police release video of the suspect.
September 17, 2024: Lima is arrested; the pistol and phone are seized.
November 2024: He confesses eight killings; police announce ten victims.
January 23, 2025: The MPAL files charges.
February 25, 2025: Police attribute 18 killings and six attempts to him; Genilda's trial against another man is suspended.
April 11, 2025, to May 15, 2026: Eight jury trials, eight convictions.
August 2026: Prosecutors say Lima admitted the killings in a national television report.
October 7, 2026: Ninth conviction, for Mikaele Leite da Silva; sentences total 234 years, 2 months and 13 days.
October 9, 2026: Latest source found; Lima in custody, ten killings untried.
November 2026: Trials scheduled, as of a July 2026 report, for four killings from 2019 and 2020.