VIDEO: Motorcycle Thief Shot By Cop

Motorcycle driver in Brasil, get busted by two criminals in attempted robbery. When one of criminals try to get on motorcycle, he gets shot by police officer. Video footage has emerged from Brazil of the moment a thief tried to steal a high-performance motorbike which had stopped at traffic lights – and was immediately shot by police.

In the graphic footage captured by the theft victim’s helmet camera, two men on another bike pull up in front of him at a junction.

The man riding on the back of the bike in front pulls out a gun, and forces the covert cameraman to give up his vehicle and step aside.

As he watches on, the thief is about to pull away when he is approached by a policeman who, sitting in an unmarked car, had clearly been able to see the events as they unfolded.

A shout can be heard before the policeman fires twice, knocking the thief from the bike. By this point his accomplice has already sped away.

The video was posted to the website Live Leak, and though in a longer version the thief is still clearly alive some six or seven minutes later as policemen stand around waiting for an ambulance, the post includes unconfirmed reports in a caption saying he later died of his wounds.