Woman draws attention on social media when she faces heavy duty in a tire repair shop in TO; VIDEO

Woman goes viral when doing heavy work in a tire shop A video showing entrepreneur Luzia Marinho Chaves, 44, known as Neguinha do Bar, carrying out heavy work in a tire shop caught attention on social media. The images show the resident of Divinópolis do Tocantins standing on the wheel of a large vehicle while using a tool to loosen the tire hubcap. The recording had already reached 788 thousand views and more than 22 thousand likes at the time of writing this report. ? Click here to follow the g1 TO channel on WhatsApp The images were published on June 12th and show Luzia working at the tire shop while an acquaintance jokes: "He needed a tire change." In the comments, internet users praised the worker's strength and determination. "This is a great warrior," wrote one woman. Another user jokingly commented: "The lion has a tattoo of her on his arm." On her social media profile, Luzia often shares her routine between the tire shop and the bar she manages in the city. The son's rubber shop was behind the impact of the video, there is a story marked by overcoming. Luzia told g1 that she bought the tire shop for her son, Jeziel Chaves da Conceição. After his death, she decided to keep the business running and learned the trade so she wouldn't have to close her doors. "I bought this tire shop for my son. Then they killed him. I didn't want to sell the tire shop, I kept it", he said. According to Luzia, in the beginning she hired tire repairmen, but the employees did not stay at work. It was then that he decided to learn the service. "I started making small cars. Today I also make trucks, I make tractors. The service arrives, I do it. I'm not going to let the customer leave without the service. A burst tire arrives in the morning, at night... I'll do it whenever it arrives," he said. She explains that she has been running the tire shop for around a year and that she combines work with a bar that she has run since 2009. The video has already had more than 780 thousand views Reproduction/Social media Work helped her face her grief Luzia has lived in Divinópolis do Tocantins for almost ten years and says that work was essential to face the period of mourning after losing her son. "At first I was really bad. But today I'm better, working, fighting. We have to work to be able to forget," he said. SEE ALSO Military police officer is arrested during operation investigating homicide in Paraíso do Tocantins VIDEO: Military police officer is arrested again in Paraíso; find out more PMs suspected of kidnapping are also investigated for forging trafficking and torture, says SSP Remember the case Jeziel Chaves da Conceição was killed in February 2025 inside his own tire shop. In December of that year, the Civil Police preventively arrested a military police officer during an operation investigating the homicide. Search and seizure warrants were also executed at addresses linked to the suspect and another military police officer investigated in the case. See more news from the region on g1 Tocantins. Mari Silva is a member of the internship program between the Jaime Câmara Group and the Federal University of Tocantins (UFT), under the supervision of Raphael Pontes.