Opinion ID: 203446
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Heading: Antonio Dias Shooting

Text: Within days of the Fernandes murder, Brandao began commuting between Brockton and Boston to meet with Lopes and help him hunt down Wendover members. Among Lopes's targets were Jimmy Gomes and Antonio Dias. Lopes went on about half a dozen missions to Brockton to look for Gomes and Dias between 1998 and 2000. Although Gomes and Dias were not members of Wendover, they had taken the side of a Wendover member in a dispute between him and John and Mario DeSoto. The DeSotos were friends of Lopes as well as Brandao's cousins. On April 27, 1999, Lopes, Brandao, and Stonehurst member Valdir Fernandes spotted Dias in Brockton during one of their missions. Lopes and Brandao lay in wait for Dias outside of a house. When Dias emerged, Lopes and Brandao fired repeatedly at Dias. The bullets damaged Dias's car, but Dias escaped unharmed. -6-