Eight-time jiu-jitsu world champ allegedly shot dead by policeman

Leandro Lo was killed after a confrontation at a Sao Paulo party on Saturday night

The global jiu-jitsu and MMA community is in mourning after news broke that eight-time world champion Leandro Lo was killed by two shots to the head during a party in Sao Paulo early on Sunday morning.

Lo, 33, was attending an event at Clube Sirio in Brazil's biggest city and, according to an incident report obtained by Brazilian MMA site Combate.com, got into an altercation with military policeman Henrique Otavio Oliveira Velozo.

According to the incident report filed at 1:57 AM on Sunday morning, witnesses said that Velozo went over to Lo's table and took a bottle following a brief discussion between the pair.

Lo then got up, took the bottle from Velozo's hand, and knocked him down which caused Lo's friends to separate both parties and ask them to leave their row to one side.

RIP Leandro Lo. Jiu Jitsu legend who shall be remembered and missed. pic.twitter.com/UBvCGWL8s9

— Bruise MMA (ง’̀-‘́)ง