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Lucivania Lopes, 37, stabbed her 21-year-old son José Carlos da Silva Junior with a knife in the chest after assaulting his young lover

Lopes was drinking with her 22-year-old at their home in the Mutunopolis community in the Brazilian state of Goiás in west-central Brazil on Friday night when her son walked in.

She confessed to killing her son and said she fought back after he got angry when he saw her with her 22-year-old partner.

André Medeiros, police chief: “The woman and her partner spent the day drinking.

Lucivania Lopes Statement

His son arrived, there was a fight and he tried to attack his partner.

“She stood in the middle of them and said that she too had been attacked.

“She said that as a result, she grabbed a knife in self-defense and accidentally hit her in the chest.”

Local media say residents found the victim and took her to hospital. He died the next day.

Residents also called the police who arrested the woman on the spot. Her partner has run away and the police are looking for her.

The knife is also missing.

The victim had lived with her grandmother and visited her mother when she saw her with her lover.