Valério Luiz de Oliveira

Valério Luiz de Oliveira (c. 1962 – 5 July 2012) was a Brazilian veteran sports journalist for the Radio 820 AM and TV PUC in Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil. Oliveira was believed to have been murdered as a result of a contract killing due to his critical statements and comments about the local soccer team's management.

Valerio Luiz de Oliveira was shot and killed on 5 July 2012 after leaving the Radio Jornal 820 AM offices. A motorcyclist was waiting for Oliveira at the station's entrance when he left the radio station. The cyclist attempted to flee but his car collided with another vehicle that was parked on the street. After the crash, the motorcyclist then fired seven gunshots into the driver's side window of Oliveira's vehicle. Police and eyewitnesses say Oliveira was struck by between four and six of those bullets while driving, crashed into a parked car, and died shortly after. According to his father, the investigation case had statements from 20 witnesses.

On 2 February 2012, police opened a case against a suspect, Mauricio Sampaio, who is the former deputy chairman of Atletico-Goiás, and for what the police alleged to be a hired killing, but Sampaio denies any involvement and he and others dismiss the facts of the case.

Valerio Luiz de Oliveria's death marked the fifth death of a journalist in Brazil in 2012 alone. Coming after the murders of Decius Sa (State of Maranhão); Paulo Souza Filho (Simões Filho, State of Baía) and Paulo Rocaro (Ponta Porã, Mato Grosso do Sul), Mario Randolph Marques Lopes (Rio de Janeiro)

At the time of his death, Valerio Luiz de Oliveira was a radio presenter and host for Radio Jornal 820 AM. Oliveira started working as a sports journalist in 1978 at Radio Goiânia. Later he worked for TV Goiânia, Television Central de Brasil and TV y Radio Anhanguera Goiânia.