Surfer dos Santos shot dead by off-duty cop

SAO PAULO — Brazilian professional surfer Ricardo dos Santos has died after being shot outside his beach home by an off-duty police officer. Investigator Marcelo Arruda said Tuesday that dos Santos, known as a daring tuberider who had won international surfing awards, died in a hospital in southern Brazil.

Dos Santos, 24, had been shot three times in the abdomen Monday in front of his home on the Guarda do Embau beach, near Florianopolis. Arruda said the officer who shot the unarmed surfer said…