A former scholar armed with a semiautomatic pistol and sporting a bulletproof vest fatally shot three individuals and wounded 13 on Friday after barging into two faculties in southeastern Brazil, authorities stated.
The shootings passed off at a public faculty with elementary and center faculty college students and a personal faculty, each positioned on the identical avenue within the small city of Aracruz in Espirito Santo state, the state's public safety secretariat stated in an announcement. Two academics and a scholar had been killed.
Roughly 4 hours later, the shooter, recognized as a 16-year-old boy who used to check on the public faculty, was arrested by police, Espirito Santo Gov. Renato Casagrande stated. Authorities didn't launch the suspect's identify.
Safety digital camera footage confirmed the assailant sporting a bulletproof vest and utilizing a semiautomatic pistol for the assaults, Espirito Santo public safety secretary Márcio Celante stated in a video supplied by the secretariat's press workplace. Casagrande stated the weapon belongs to the previous scholar's father, a navy police officer.
Along with the fatalities, 13 individuals had been wounded, together with 9 instructors, stated Celante, who famous that within the public faculty the shooter gained entry to the academics lounge after breaking a lock. Six of the wounded, together with two youngsters, had been nonetheless hospitalized Friday afternoon.
Faculty shootings are unusual in Brazil, however have occurred with considerably higher frequency lately.