An Argentine tourist who was shot in the head and chest in Rio de Janeiro last month while making his way to the Christ the Redeemer statue died on Monday, Argentine tourism authorities said.
Gastón Fernando Burlon, 51, had mistakenly driven his car into a low-income community in Brazil’s second most populated city when he was attacked last month, police said at the time.
Accompanied by his wife and daughter, Burlon had been using a GPS device to see the world-famous Christ the Redeemer statue when he found himself in the Morro dos Prazeres, a hillside favela in Rio dominated by a criminal gang called the Red Command.
