The secret past of a hitman who was murdered in front of his family is revealed

• Last week, a man was shot and killed in Brazil in front of his wife and children.
• Only when authorities tried to determine the man’s identity did his secret past as a hitman come to light.
• Darko Gleiser was on the run from Interpol for ten years before his death. His killer has not yet been caught.

In a plot twist worthy of an action movie, the man who was shot to death in front of his wife and young son last week is revealed after his death to be a hitman with a deadly past.

Brazilian authorities said Darko Gleiser, who publicly used the name Dejon Kovac, had a history as a contract killer and was arrested in Montenegro after the man was assassinated outside the prison gates on Christmas Day 2014. Fox News reported that he had been on the run from Interpol for 10 years.

He was killed last week in Brazil in front of his family returning home from a cycling trip.

Surveillance camera footage showed a masked gunman approach the trio and shoot Gleiser at point-blank range, Fox reported. He was later confirmed dead at the hospital.

Authorities suspect Gleiser’s death was related to a previous crime, but the perpetrator has not yet been caught.

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According to Fox, Gleiser met his wife in 2015 or 2016 after moving from Montenegro to Bosnia and eventually Brazil. The station quoted local news station Folha de São Paulo as saying the woman claimed she knew nothing about his past.

Neighbors of the family said Folha de São Paulo Gleiser was a family man who often visited a local bakery to drop off her son at school, even though she spoke little Portuguese. , and were interacting with other parents. The newspaper reported that he identified himself as a carpenter and claimed that his family made a living from the money they ran in Slovenia.

Gleiser’s true identity was revealed after his death when it was discovered that the passport he was carrying actually belonged to a Slovenian national who had lost his ID in 2017.

“The investigation revealed that he was secretly living here under a fake Slovenian name,” lead investigator Luis Ricardo Lara Díaz Jr. said Friday, as reported by Fox News. told reporters.

Montenegrin authorities wanted Gleiser on multiple counts of murder and possession of weapons and explosives, Fox reported.

Representatives for Interpol, the Embassy of the Republic of Serbia in Brazil, and the São Paulo State Police did not immediately respond to requests for comment from Business Insider.