Off duty police officers shoot each other in mistaken identity incident

555 In a frightening case of mistaken identity, a civilian police officer mistook a military policeman for a robber and confronted him in a pharmacy in Fortaleza, north east Brazil. Ol'ivio Gabriel Torres, who works as a crime investigator, was hit in the face and military police officer, Edilson Barreto da Silva, who patrols the streets, suffered bullet wounds to his thigh and abdomen. Security camera footage from inside the pharmacy on Wednesday shows the two men fighting before Torres pulled his gun. Silva, who was off-duty at the time, was seen standing at the counter as he prepared to pay for medication at the start of the video. According to witnesses, Torres was walking past the store when he noticed Silva was armed and 'seemed to be acting suspiciously'. Both men were taken to the Dr. Jos'e Frota Institute Hospital. Their injuries were extremely serious.

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