A rapper put a pedestrian in hospital after ploughing into him with his car while filming himself driving for a music video.
Emerson Teixeira Muniz, known as MC Tuto, had mounted a camera on the front of his high-end Porsche, pointing towards the windscreen.
He was filming himself driving while a glamorously dressed woman sat beside him in the front passenger seat.
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Footage shows Muniz bobbing his head and rapping along to a song as the woman snaps selfies with her phone.
Neither appear to be watching the road.
Suddenly, the camera jolts violently and a large spiderweb crack appears across the windscreen as Muniz slams into a pedestrian at high speed.
His expression turns to shock as he stops the car and gets out.
The crash happened in central Barueri, in Brazil’s Greater São Paulo area, at around midnight on Friday (23 Jan).
The 25-year-old rapper was arrested shortly afterwards, as reported by Need To Know.
Authorities say he was driving in an area restricted to pedestrians and did not have authorisation to be filming at the time.
The victim, identified as 20-year-old Gabriel Luiz Berrelhas Alves, was rushed to a local hospital in serious condition.
He is an IT technician and father of a one-year-old child.
He underwent surgery on his ankle on Sunday (25 Jan) and, at the time of the latest update, was recovering in the ICU.
Muniz is being investigated on suspicion of attempted homicide under Brazil’s dolo eventual doctrine, meaning he did not intend to kill but accepted the risk that death might occur.
He was transferred from police custody to a provisional detention centre in São Paulo on Sunday (26 Jan).
Muniz is the author of the 2025 hit song Barbie, which has more than 268m views on YouTube. He has more than 6m followers across Instagram and TikTok.
He was nominated for a Latin Grammy in 2025 and ranked eighth among the most-streamed artists in Brazil on Spotify that year.
His lawyer said in a statement: “MC Tuto has no previous convictions, a fixed address, lawful employment, stable ties, and has consistently made himself available to the courts.”
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