Antonio da Costa Santos (also known as Toninho) was a Brazilian architect and politician affiliated to the Workers' Party (PT).
Toninho took office as Mayor of Campinas (the third largest city in the state of São Paulo, with over 1,000,000 inhabitants), on January 1, 2001. He was shot to death at 10:15 pm, September 10, 2001, as he was driving home alone from a shopping mall. The details and motives of his murder, which stunned the country, were still largely unknown as of 2011.
Toninho was succeeded in office by the vice-Mayor, Izalene Tiene. He left a daughter and a widow.
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