According eyewitnesses, referee Octavio da Silva, 20, stabbed player Josenir dos Santos, 30, on June 30 after dos Santos refused to heed his order to leave.
A mob then turned on da Silva, killing him before severing his head in the remote town of Pio XII, named after a former pope.
Relatives of slain referee da Silva reacted to the incident said they are sad and appalled because nothing can be done because none of his relative was present at the scene of the incident.
“We feel revolted to have something like this so terrible happen here,”
According to local police, Luis Moraes de Sousa, 27, was arrested on July 2 and police in the regional headquarters of Santa Ines are continuing to investigate the incident.
Sousa told reporters about the incident.
“I left soon from there and didn’t stay there (scene of alleged crime), you understand? I got information that my brother cut him a little with a sickle and another guy put a knife into his throat,” Sousa said.
Police said they were searching for two more suspects who they named as Francisco Edson Moraes de Sousa and Josimar de Sousa.
Brazil has made significant strides in lowering homicide rates in recent years, as millions were lifted from poverty, but it faces mounting pressures to show it is a safe place for tourists before 12 Brazilian cities host the 2014 soccer World Cup and Rio de Janeiro the Olympic Games in 2016.
In Rio de Janeiro on the day of the brawl, Brazil’s national team handily defeated Spain in the Confederations Cup, considered a test run for next year’s much bigger championship.
The eight-team tournament was marked by an unexpected wave of demonstrations, some violent, in part to protest the $14 billion being spent on World Cup preparations amid a lack of adequate public services.
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