PT incident archive
Source-backed homicide and attempted homicide records documented in PT. This page summarizes the archive's documented floor for the country; it is not an official total or a representative sample.
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- Documented records
- 21
- Cities represented
- 13
- Latest incident date
- 19 September 2026
- Latest review
- 24 September 2026
Documented floor by year
| Year | Documented here | Official reference |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 16 records | — |
| 2025 | 3 records | — |
| 2024 | 1 record | — |
| 2023 | 1 record | — |
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Current judicial status
- 10Alleged
- 7Charged
- 1On trial
- 3Convicted
Latest judicial-status entries
- Lisboa, PT
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- Lisboa, PT
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- Peso Da Régua, PT
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- Lagos, PT
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- Póvoa Da Galega, PT
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- Moita, PT
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- Amadora, PT
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- Barreiro, PT
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Latest documented records
- Homicide in lisboa, PT
· Alleged · 1 source
A 31-year-old man was shot dead at about 21:00 on Saturday 19 September 2026 in the Bairro da Serafina, in the Campolide district of Lisbon. A foreign national, he did not survive wounds inflicted to the rear of the thorax and died at the scene. On Wednesday 23 September the Polícia Judiciária detained four people, all members of the same family and all Portuguese nationals: two brothers aged 19 and 25, their 49-year-old mother and their 54-year-old father. The force says they carried out the crime jointly. According to the police, the attack originated in earlier conflicts connected to drug trafficking. The four were to be brought before a judicial authority for a first judicial questioning and the imposition of coercive measures.
- Homicide in lagos, PT
· Alleged · 4 sources
A foreign couple, a 79-year-old man and a 62-year-old woman, were found dead on the afternoon of Friday 11 September 2026 inside a water cistern at their home in Lagos, in the district of Faro. According to the Polícia Judiciária, the victims were beaten with a blunt object at the property, and the suspect then dragged the bodies into the cistern to hide them and tried to break them down with chemicals. The suspect, a 45-year-old man who worked for the couple as a caretaker, was found by the GNR near the scene carrying a large amount of cash and valuables believed to belong to the victims. He was arrested on suspicion of two counts of aggravated homicide and desecration of a corpse, and after a first judicial hearing before the investigating judge in Portimão he was remanded in pre-trial detention. The motive remains unknown, and the investigation is continuing into whether anyone else was involved.
- Homicide in póvoa da galega, PT
· Charged · 1 source
Early on Sunday 6 September 2026 — reported at about 06:30 — the GNR was alerted by residents and family members that a 73-year-old woman had been found dead inside her home in the village of Póvoa da Galega, in the parish of Milharado, Mafra, in the district of Lisbon. She had been stabbed. The suspect is her grandson, who lived with her; according to a police source the motive is unknown and the two had a good relationship. After the killing the suspect is reported to have caused disturbances and damage at a hotel and at several homes near the one he shared with his grandmother. A police source described him as behaving erratically, allegedly after taking drugs, for which he was already known to the authorities. He was detained by the GNR and the investigation passed to the Polícia Judiciária. Brought before a judge at the court in Sintra for a first judicial questioning, he was remanded in custody at the Lisbon prison to await trial.
- Attempted homicide in moita, PT
· Charged · 1 source
At about 06:00 on Friday 4 September 2026 a 31-year-old man was seriously wounded in the home he shared with his partner in the municipality of Moita, in the district of Setúbal. According to the Polícia Judiciária the attacker, motivated by jealousy, used a large kitchen knife and struck him several times, causing injuries that placed his life in danger. He required two blood transfusions to replace the blood he had lost. The suspect, his 24-year-old partner, was arrested outside the act on suspicion of aggravated attempted homicide. Brought before a judge for a first questioning as a formal suspect, he was remanded in custody. The investigation is being directed by the domestic-violence section of the regional prosecution service in Lisbon, based at the court in Seixal.
- Homicide in lisboa, PT
· Alleged · 2 sources
A man of about 25 was stabbed in the chest in the Jardim do Cais do Sodré, next to a kiosk, in Lisbon at 12.16pm on 16 August 2026. According to the PSP he was left unconscious at the scene. He was treated and taken to the Hospital de São José in a condition described as serious, but did not survive his injuries; his death was confirmed at 1.12pm. The suspect fled towards Terreiro do Paço. No arrest was reported at the time of the cited report. The Polícia Judiciária is investigating. The investigation has the assistance of a single witness, who was to be questioned shortly, and CCTV installed at the location may be essential to establishing the circumstances of the killing. On 20 August 2026 it was reported that the PSP, through its Lisbon Metropolitan Command, had opened an internal inquiry into accusations that officers refused to respond to the killing. A witness to the attack made the accusation on social media. Disciplinary proceedings may follow.
- Homicide in barreiro, PT
· Alleged · 2 sources
A 32-year-old man was shot dead in the street near the Barreiro river terminal, south of Lisbon, on the night of Tuesday 11 August 2026. Emergency services were called to the Rua da Recosta at about 10.50pm. The victim, a Guinean national who lived in Germany and was in Portugal on holiday, was shot in the face at close range and died at the scene. According to witnesses, the shooting followed an argument over a board game played for money. Such games were held regularly in the street, drawing dozens of people, after a nearby café closed for the night. The argument escalated into a physical fight; the suspect is reported to have said he was going home to fetch a weapon, and to have returned with a revolver and opened fire. The judicial police opened an investigation. The suspect had been identified but not arrested at the time of the reports cited here.
- Attempted homicide in lisboa, PT
· Charged · 4 sources
On the afternoon of 10 August 2026 a 42-year-old woman was shot and wounded in the Baixa district of Lisbon. According to police accounts, an argument broke out between two men who both sold pressed laurel to tourists in the streets of the Baixa. One of them drew a small-calibre pistol and fired at the other, missing him. The bullet struck the woman, who was buying pastries in a nearby shop. She was hit in the abdomen and taken to São José hospital. The intended target was not injured. The police detained the man alleged to have fired the shot on 11 August, after searching his home in connection with a separate domestic violence proceeding. A shotgun was seized there, but the weapon used in the shooting was not recovered. He was to be brought before a court on suspicion of attempted homicide, and was later released subject to reporting conditions. On 15 September 2026 three suspects surrendered to the Judicial Police after officers failed to find them during a search operation, and were questioned that evening. Reports indicate they may face charges of attempted homicide.
- Homicide in trofa, PT
· Alleged · 1 source
A 71-year-old woman was shot dead at her home in the municipality of Trofa, in the parish of Muro, on 9 August 2026. The suspect, her former husband, killed himself immediately afterwards. The victim had separated from the suspect and had spent nearly two years living in a domestic-violence shelter before returning to the house. Neighbours said the suspect had made repeated threats against her during the marriage, including that he would burn her alive, and had said that if he found another man in the house he would kill her and then himself. The Judicial Police of Porto investigated the deaths.
- Homicide in lisboa, PT
· Alleged · 1 source
A 45-year-old woman was stabbed to death on the night of Wednesday 5 August 2026 in Lisbon. The killing followed an argument between two people who rented rooms in the same flat on Rua dos Prazeres, in the Misericórdia parish. According to a spokesperson for the Public Security Police, the suspect — a 30-year-old man who shared the flat with her — used a bladed weapon to stab the victim in the neck and face. She did not survive her injuries and died on the kitchen floor. The alert was raised at about 22:33 by the suspect himself, who called the police after the attack. No charge has been reported at this stage.
- Homicide in lisboa, PT
· Charged · 1 source
A 56-year-old man was stabbed in the head and killed on 29 July 2026 in an apartment in the Penha de França district of Lisbon, in a flat he shared with the suspect. After the killing the suspect withdrew to his room and concealed the knife used. A 64-year-old man was arrested and indicted for the homicide following evidence gathered by the Lisbon and Tagus Valley directorate of the Polícia Judiciária. He was brought before a court, which ordered pre-trial detention. Investigators have not established a motive but suspect the killing was connected to a dispute over the sharing of household expenses.
- Homicide in camarate, PT
· Alleged · 1 source
A 40-year-old man was shot in the back in the early hours of 24 July 2026 in Camarate, in the municipality of Loures north of Lisbon. The emergency alert was received at 00:45. Volunteer firefighters from Camarate and a medical emergency team from Hospital de São José found him already in cardiorespiratory arrest; resuscitation attempts were discontinued without any return of spontaneous circulation, and his death was declared at the scene. His body was transferred to the National Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences in Lisbon at 05:50. The PSP responded first and the Polícia Judiciária has taken over the investigation. No suspect has been identified and no arrest has been reported.
- Homicide in lisboa, PT
· Alleged · 1 source
A 45-year-old man was beaten to death with an iron bar on 17 July 2026 on Rua do Alvito, in the Alcântara district of Lisbon. According to reporting on the investigation, he was attacked without warning after intervening to stop a robbery at a construction site, and the fatal blows were concentrated on his head. A colleague managed to escape and gave investigators an account of the attack. The suspect fled on foot and remains at large. Investigators describe him as an assailant already known to the PSP who operates in that part of the city. The Polícia Judiciária has opened urgent inquiries given the alarm the killing caused locally, and has not ruled out the involvement of accomplices, although no evidence currently supports that.
- Attempted homicide in aveiro, PT
· Alleged · 1 source
The victim, a 25-year-old man, was shot in the abdomen in Aveiro in the early morning following a quarrel with another man. He was stabilized by paramedics at the scene and taken to Aveiro Hospital. The suspect, a man of about 40, fled before police arrived; the case has been passed to the Judicial Police of Aveiro for investigation.
- Homicide in amadora, PT
· Alleged · 1 source
Ministério Público acusa the suspect de ter assassinado the victim com um bloco de cimento, na Amadora.
- Homicide in amadora, PT
· Charged · 1 source
Um homem de 43 anos foi atingido por três disparos de arma de fogo a 21 de maio de 2026, no concelho da Amadora, e morreu numa unidade hospitalar devido à gravidade dos ferimentos. Segundo a Polícia Judiciária, o crime terá ocorrido por alegada retaliação na sequência de um tiroteio ocorrido a 29 de junho de 2025 numa praia do concelho de Cascais, do qual o filho da vítima tinha sido testemunha. O suspeito deste homicídio foi detido a 25 de agosto de 2026 e ficou sujeito à medida de coação de prisão preventiva. A 3 de setembro de 2026 a Polícia Judiciária anunciou a detenção de três jovens, com idades entre os 18 e os 21 anos e conhecidos uns dos outros, por um homicídio consumado e um tentado ligados ao mesmo caso. A investigação foi conduzida pela Diretoria de Lisboa e Vale do Tejo.
- Attempted homicide in barreiro, PT
· Charged · 2 sources
A 17-year-old boy was stabbed in the chest in the city of Barreiro on 1 May 2026, in what the Polícia Judiciária described as a context of group and youth violence following several earlier attempts at assault. According to the PJ, the suspect and two other youths, one of them aged 15, saw the victim walking towards a car accompanied by some relatives and decided to attack him by throwing stones at him. The victim ran, but was intercepted and stabbed in the thorax. The wound collapsed his left lung and placed him in danger of his life. A 17-year-old detained by the Setúbal directorate of the Polícia Judiciária on suspicion of carrying out the attack was remanded in custody to await trial, it was announced on 31 August 2026. He was detained in the course of an inquiry by the Barreiro section.
- Attempted homicide in peso da régua, PT
· On trial · 1 source
On the late afternoon of 12 September 2025, several shots were fired at four men in the Alagoas neighbourhood of Peso da Régua, in the district of Vila Real. Three of the men were admitted to the emergency department of the local health unit for Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro. The Republican National Guard and the Judicial Police attended and seized firearms and ammunition from the suspects. A father and son were charged. The father, aged 45, faces three counts of attempted aggravated homicide and the son, aged 22, one count. According to the prosecution, the victims survived only by "sheer luck", and tension between the rival groups persists. The father was arrested the day after the shooting and is under house arrest. The son, arrested in December 2025, is serving an eight-year sentence from a separate conviction. The trial opened at the Vila Real court on 15 September 2026, where both men declined to give evidence.
- Homicide in amadora, PT
· Charged · 1 source
A 34-year-old man was shot twelve times in the Cova da Moura neighbourhood of Amadora, in the Lisbon district, on 3 August 2025, and died in hospital of his injuries. The shooting took place during an altercation involving several people, and those responsible fled afterwards. A 41-year-old Portuguese man was arrested in the Marseille region of southern France on 24 June 2026 under a European Arrest Warrant, following a joint operation between the Portuguese judicial police and the French judicial authorities. He was surrendered to Portugal and, after a first judicial interrogation, was remanded in pre-trial detention on suspicion of aggravated homicide.
- Homicide in águeda, PT
· Convicted · 2 sources
A 71-year-old man was beaten to death with a wooden pole at his home in Barrô, in the municipality of Águeda, on 20 July 2025. His body was found two days later. According to the prosecution, the two men met on the road in front of the house and drank a beer together before the attacker struck the victim repeatedly, notably to the head. Investigators found the victim's phone and house keys missing and the access gate locked from the outside, and concluded that the perpetrator had made sure the victim could neither call for help nor leave. DNA and fingerprints on a beer bottle, and biological traces on a wooden pole recovered from the yard, matched the man later arrested. He was detained in October 2025 and held in pre-trial custody, and on 29 July 2026 the court in Aveiro convicted him of aggravated homicide and sentenced him to 16 years and six months in prison.
- Homicide in viseu, PT
· Convicted · 1 source
O crime ocorreu no centro comercial Palácio do Gelo em dezembro de 2024. O homem estava acusado de um crime de homicídio qualificado consumado e mais seis na forma tentada.
- Homicide in baleizao, PT
· Convicted · 2 sources
An elderly German couple, aged 79 and 71, were killed by their live-in caretakers at a rural property in Baleizão (Beja, Alentejo) in April 2023; their bodies were found in an advanced state of decomposition. The killing was reportedly driven by a breakdown in the working relationship and a financial motive — the suspects took a vehicle and bank cards belonging to the victims. The suspects were convicted and sentenced to 22 years in prison each, but the written judgment has twice been sent back on appeal for reformulation; a third reading is scheduled for September 2026, and the suspects remain free after reaching the maximum limit of pretrial detention.