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Brazil School Shooting in Rio Kills 13 as Former Student Aims at Children
Posted on April 7, 2011
A school shooting in Rio de Janeiro killed at least 13 people and injured another 22 after a former student targeted children in classrooms this morning.
Wellington Menezes de Oliveira, who said he was going to give a lecture at the school, used two revolvers to carry out the attack, Colonel Djalma Beltrame of Rio’s 14th police battalion said on Globo TV.
“It was a premeditated act,” Beltrame said. “He was clearly a hallucinating person.”
The killer shot himself after police officers who were near the school found him leaving a classroom and heading to another, Beltrame said.
To contact the reporter on this story: Telma Marotto in Sao Paulo at tmarotto1@bloomberg.net
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Carlos Caminada at ccaminada1@bloomberg.net