Many Swifties have reported fainting from extreme heat, being mugged or getting caught up in a police raid, prompting the singer to postpone a show.
The deaths of two people, muggings and a dangerous heatwave left legions of Taylor Swift’s Brazilian fans angry and disappointed in the three-day Rio de Janeiro leg of the pop superstar’s Eras Tour, which concludes on Monday night.
Gabriel Mongenot Santana Milhomem Santos, 25, a fan who had travelled from the country’s centre-west region to see Swift, was stabbed to death on a Copacabana beach about 3am on Monday, Rio’s police said in a statement.
It was the second death of a Swift fan in four days. On Friday, 23-year-old Ana Clara Benevides Machado fell ill during the singer’s first show in the city, and died later that evening at a hospital.
Fans also reported fainting from extreme heat, being mugged or getting caught up in a police raid.
Rio’s Municipal Health Department said Benevides, who, according to a friend, passed out during Swift’s second song, “Cruel Summer,” experienced cardiorespiratory arrest, but the exact cause of her death is not yet known. Rio’s Forensic Medical Institute examined the body on Saturday and said additional laboratory tests had to be conducted, the online news site G1 reported.
In a statement posted on Instagram, Swift said Benevides’ death left her with a “shattered heart.
