A video has revealed the moment a man begged for a financial help on a street in Brazil was killed.

The murderer was walking down a street in Brazil when a homeless woman approached him and asked him to give her 20 cents. When she repeated her request, the situation took a dramatic turn.

The video documented the moment the perpetrator took out his pistol and shot the victim at close range, before walking quietly from the scene as if nothing had happened.

The accident occurred in the early hours of Saturday on a main street in the city of Niteroi. In the video recorded by nearby surveillance cameras, a woman can be seen stopping to help the victim and lying in passing cars to take her to the hospital.

Police said that after the arrest of the murderer, known as Aderbal Ramos de Castro, he confessed that the woman was asking for one Brazilian real, the equivalent of only 20 cents.