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Chicago Cop, Jiu-Jitsu Instructor Dies In Climbing Accident

Family and friends of a 43-year-old Chicago Police officer are in mourning,  following the officer's death over the weekend while he was vacationing with his family in France.

He was a Brazilian jiu-jitsu teacher, and had a jiu-jitsu academy in Bucktown.


Vianna had many devoted students.

"You didn't hear him congratulate many people, but when he did, he meant it," says Rafael Leyva, who began studying jiu-jitsu under Vianna in 2012.

"On Monday, a lot of us got together. You saw a bunch of people who can literally do harm on a person because we're trained in that specific art like that to defend ourselves," he said.

"(We) cried like babies.  Because he impacted so many lives."

Pedro Vianna had been a Chicago Police officer for six years.