| Murder of Brent Sikkema |
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| Location | Bedroom of the victim's winter home in Rio de Janeiro's Jardim Botanico district, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil |
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| Date | January 15, 2024 |
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| Target | Brent Sikkema, art dealer |
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Attack type | Suspected murder for hire, stabbing |
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| Weapon | Knife (17 stab wounds) |
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| Deaths | 1 |
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| Victim | Brent Sikkema |
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| Participant | 1 |
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| Motive | Suspected child custody, life insurance, divorce proceedings |
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| Accused | Daniel Garcia Carrera Sikkema (victim's ex-husband), Alejandro Triana Prévez (suspected assaliant, former bodyguard) |
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Sikkema died on January 15, 2024, at the age of 75, after he was stabbed to death in his Rio de Janeiro townhouse.[5] Two days later, 30-year-old Alejandro Triana Prevez was arrested as a suspect.[6][7] Sikkema sustained eighteen stab wounds, most of them to the face and chest, and $3,000 was stolen from his home.[6] On February 9, Alejandro Prevez told the police that Daniel Sikkema, the victim's ex-husband, promised him 200,000 dollars to kill Brent.[8] According to the investigation, Daniel's motivation was the dispute over millions of dollars from Brent's estate, who was a partner in an important art gallery in New York.[9] The police investigation said that Sikkema changed his will in May 2022, and his ex-husband, Daniel Garcia Carrera, the alleged mastermind behind the American's murder, was no longer the beneficiary of the inheritance.[10]
On March 21, Daniel Sikkema, the victim's ex-husband, was arrested for passport fraud in New York, in the United States.[11]
On July 1, the FBI joined the investigation and investigated the crime scene in Jardim Botânico, alongside American prosecutors, Brazilian police officers from the Capital Homicide Division (DH) and members of the Federal Public Ministry (MPF).[12]
On August 30, the defendants attended a hearing on the case at the Court of Justice of Rio de Janeiro. [13]
On February 11, 2025, the American police reported that they arrested and indicted Daniel Sikkema for the murder Brent Sikkema in Rio de Janeiro.[14]
