On Friday, a 16-year-old gunman wearing Nazi emblems opened fire on two schools in southeast Brazil, killing at least three people, among them an adolescent girl, and injuring 11 others, according to officials.
Authorities in the Espirito Santo state city of Aracruz reported that the shooter opened fire on a group of instructors at his previous school, killing two and injuring nine others.
In two school shootings in Brazil, many people were slain.
He afterwards left that public primary and secondary school and entered a neighbouring private school, where he allegedly killed a teenage girl and injured two other individuals.
According to Governor Renato Casagrande, who also proclaimed three days of mourning in the state, authorities have captured the shooter.
“He was a 16-year-old minor and a student at (the first) school up to June. After that, his family changed his school. According to information we have, he was receiving psychiatric care “A news conference heard from Casagrande. He claimed that some of the survivors’ wounds still posed a threat to their lives. He stated, “We are rooting and praying for them to recover.
The gunman was captured on security camera footage racing inside the school while armed and wearing military-style camouflage, according to Brazilian media reports. The personnel fled in horror as he ran through the hallways and started firing bullets.
He had a swastika on his fatigues, according to investigators, and they were checking into whether he had ties to any extremist groups.
The shooter, a police officer’s son, was alleged to have used two handguns in the attack, both of which were registered to his father — one was a service firearm and the other was a privately registered weapon.
The teenager broke inside the school through a locked door and avoided the security guard, according to Casagrande, who claimed that the boy looked to have carefully planned the attack.
The governor claimed that he then went into the teachers’ lounge, which was the first room he reached, and started shooting.
“He intended to shoot people. He started shooting at the first individuals he came across, “said he.
According to Joao Francisco Filho, commissioner of the civil police, the suspect appeared to have been planning the attack for “two years” and did not appear to have a “clear target.”
An AFP photographer stated that outside the school, which was sealed off with crime scene tape, investigators could be seen carrying victims’ remains in coffins and loading them onto police vans. In the city, there are about 100,000 people living.
