By Luciana Magalhaes

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) -Distant gunfire rang out as Douglas da Silva dropped off a food delivery on October 28 and headed home to his apartment on the north side of Rio de Janeiro.

Hundreds of members of Rio’s elite police forces had stormed a complex of favelas about a mile away, hunting members of the Comando Vermelho gang. A firefight was still raging that evening in the forested hills above his gated apartment complex.

Silva, 30, was arriving home in his white Hyundai sedan when motorcycle cops securing the area ordered him to stop.

What happened next is disputed.

In their report, police officers say Silva refused to stop when ordered, drove off, and shot at them with a revolver – which he later surrendered. Silva’s family says he had no firearm, no criminal

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