Alcino João do Nascimento

He gained notoriety for being one of the convicted for the assassination attempt of journalist and politician Carlos Lacerda, which became nationally known as the Rua Tonelero shooting.

At this moment, he began a good relationship with then mayor Juscelino Kubitschek, who hired him as construction worker of the city.

[3][4] A little bit later, Juscelino presented Alcino to Gregório Fortunato, head of the personal security of president Getúlio Vargas, who looked for a man to work as detective.

After one of them, held at the night of 4 August 1954, in the courtyard of Colégio São José, the journalist went back home along with his son Sérgio, aged 15, in the car of Major Rubens Florentino Vaz.

[7] The Air Force high command assumed the investigations on 8 August, same that when Gregório Fortunato, accused to be the main assailant, confessed his participation.

[5] The attack triggered a political crisis that led to the suicide of Getúlio Vargas, with a shot on the heart, on 24 August 1954.

– memories of a gunslinger who changed the history of Brazil"), launched after Alcino was released, brings his version about the night of 5 August 1954, during the attack.