Crime & Safety
Slain Man's Friends Raise Funds
East Cobb's Brazilian community has collected nearly $10,000 to have Neriton Amaral's body returned home for burial.
The friends of a Brazilian man at an East Cobb restaurant earlier this month have raised enough money to have a proper burial.
Ana Daves, a friend of Neriton Amaral, said Monday that weekend fundraising events have netted nearly $10,000.
Amaral, who went by the nickname Timbete, died on Oct. 16 after getting into an incident in the parking lot of the Los Bravos restaurant on Powers Ferry Road.
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Orville Rivera of Marietta was in Delaware last week and charged with Amaral's murder.
Daves said Timbete's family in Brazil to have his body returned and for burial expenses.
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She said final details are being worked out with the Brazilian consulate office in Atlanta, and that there might be a public viewing before Amaral's body is returned home.
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