A 16-year-old boy attacked on Friday two schools in the Brazilian city of Aracruz firing indiscriminately, causing the death of three people and wounding thirteen others. The deceased are two teachers and an eleven-year-old elementary school studentwhile four other people, including a girl, are hospitalized in serious conditionaccording to official information.
The aggressor, former student of one of the educational centerswas arrested hours after the attack and confessed to the crime that he said he had planned for two years, but did not explain the reason. The authorities have announced that the gunman is a 16-year-old former student of the Aracruz Public School and the son of a police lieutenant. In fact, the pistols he used are his father’s service weapons.
The young man entered the Primo Bitti school in the morning, during school hours, picking the lock on the back door of the educational center, where he was enrolled until last June. He went to the staff room, located 20 meters from the door, and opened fire at will against eleven teachers, who were gathered in a break between classes. “She entered the staff room during recess and surprised them,” he explains. Marcio Celante, Secretary of Regional Public Security of Espírito Santo. Two of those teachers have been killed and nine others have been injured.
After ending the lives of these two teachers, he left the school and went to the Praia do Coqueiral Educational Center, a private school located on the same avenue, shot several children and fled. In this second attack, she killed an 11-year-old student and injured four other people.
Two years planning the attack
Police managed to track him down and arrest him hours laterin a family home located in the state of Espíritu Santo, in the east of the country. After being arrested, confessed to the crime, calmly recounted the facts and said that he had been planning the attack for two years, but without detailing his motives.
The Governor of Espiritu Santo, Renato Casagrandesaid in a press conference that the young have a “mental health problem” for which he receives psychiatric care. At the time of the attack, he wore a swastika on his clothesso the authorities are investigating whether he belongs to an extremist organization.
The aggressor is son of a policeman and in the attack he used two of his father’s weapons, a semi-automatic pistol and a revolver, which is owned by the regional Military Police. In his story, the attacker Said he planned the crime for two years but he did not explain the reasons and fired “without a defined target,” according to the regional Public Security Secretary, Márcio Celante.
The crime, which has caused a stir in Brazil, has been condemned by the elected president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who will assume power on January 1. Lula said that she received the facts “with sadness” and expressed his “solidarity with the relatives of the victims of this absurd tragedy”, which has not yet been commented on by the current president, Jair Bolsonaro.
Governor Casagrande criticized the “culture of violence” that exists in Brazil, the country with the highest number of murders in the world, but where shootings in schools are not common. “This shows how the culture of violence is present in some people, and unfortunately in some young people”Casagrande said.
Source: Lasexta
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