The state-run Agencia Brasil states that the suspected murderer was “at a gas station between the cities of Uberaba and Uberlândia (Minas Gerais state, southeast) and had three thousand dollars on him.”
Sikkeman, 75, was one of the owners of the Sikkema Jenkins and Co. gallery in New York. His lifeless body was found with 18 stab wounds in his home in the Jardim Botánico district of Rio de Janeiro.
To identify the suspect, identified as Alejandro Triana Tévez, police used images from surveillance cameras.
The person, who according to local press is of Cuban origin, was a refugee and was found resting at a gas station.
According to the head of the State Police Homicide Unit, Felipe Curi, the hypothesis is that it was a robbery that turned into murder.
“The preliminary results of our investigation indicate that Alejandro came from Sao Paulo expressly to commit this crime,” Curi said.
He stated that the alleged perpetrator of the crime had returned to the São Paulo area, which led investigators to believe that he had “some type of confidential information” and knew the victim.
In 1971, Sikkema began his career at the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, New York, where he was exhibition director.
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