 Gomes wrote that Lopes filmed traffickers dealing drugs and carrying guns that night.Lopes' boss at Globo said that Lopes was working on a story about sexual exploitation at the baile funk, with the understanding that Lopes would have tried to obtain footage at the baile funk had he not been accosted relatively early in the night.Gomes wrote that if Globo would have notified the police at midnight on June 2, there was still a chance that Lopes's life could have been saved through police interdiction.