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A Brazilian gunman fatally shot 12 children at a Rio de Janeiro public school before he himself was killed, police said, shocking the South American nation that has never seen such an incident before.
It was not clear whether the gunman, who is believed to be a former student at the school, shot himself or was killed by police. At least 18 other people, mostly students, were wounded in the shooting spree at the school for children aged 10 to 15. At least seven were in grave condition, a health official said.
Colonel Evandro Bezerra, a fire department spokesman, told Brazil’s Globo television network that the shooter was 24-year-old Wellington Menezes de Oliveira, a former student at the Tasso da Silveira School, in the western Realengo neighborhood, who did not have any prior criminal record.
The shooting spree incident was apparently unrelated to the city’s ongoing gang violence. Police said Oliveira left a letter at the scene indicating he wanted to commit suicide, however, it did not give a clear motive for the shooting.
Police helicopters landed on a football field very near the school to collect the injured and transport them to nearby hospitals. Initial reports said the gunman entered the school wearing a backpack and told officials he was there to deliver a speech, before opening fire in a classroom.
“It is not known why he fired,” Colonel Ibis Pereira, a spokesman for the Rio de Janeiro military police said. Police exchanged gunfire with the assailant, who was carrying two guns and a suicide note, before he killed himself, another police official told local media.
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We humans are so good at this shit.
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