Brazilian media outlets state the 13-year-old suspect seemed motivated by a lethal school shooting in 2019.
An instructor has actually been fatally stabbed in an attack at a school in Sao Paulo, Brazil, that left 3 other instructors and 2 trainees hurt.
Authorities have actually determined a 13-year-old trainee as accountable for the knife attack, which happened at about 7:20 am regional time (10:20 GMT) on Monday at the Thomazia Montoro public school.
The guv of Sao Paulo state, Tarcisio Gomes de Freitas, stated on Twitter that the suspect had actually been collared. No intention has actually been validated up until now.
“I have no words to reveal my unhappiness,” de Freitas composed in his post.
He likewise revealed “much remorse and unhappiness” at the death of 71-year-old science instructor Elisabete Tenreiro, who was eliminated in the attack. After being stabbed, authorities state Tenreiro entered into heart attack and passed away.
3 days of grieving have actually been revealed in remembrance of Tenreiro. Authorities stated the hurt instructors and trainees were being dealt with at 4 regional healthcare facilities.
Sao Paulo’s Secretary of Public Safety Guilherme Derrite praised the “brave acts” of an athletics instructor who “immobilised” the teenage suspect, therefore preventing “a higher disaster”.
In an interview with the Associated Press news firm, a 13-year-old from the school stated the suspect, a schoolmate, had actually remained in a battle with another trainee the previous week which Tenreiro had actually stepped in.
He included that the suspect appeared mad at Tenreiro and threatened to do something about the instructor’s actions.
On Monday early morning, the trainee stated the suspect appeared worn a skull mask and stabbed the instructor from behind.
Brazil’s Folha paper reported that the suspect composed under the username “Taucci” on Twitter, a seeming recommendation to a March 2019 school shooting that occurred in Suzano, on the borders of Sao Paulo.
There, 2 previous trainees, determined as 17-year-old Guilherme Taucci Monteiro and 25-year-old Luiz Henrique de Castro, opened fire at the Raul Brasil State School, eliminating 5 trainees and 2 school staff members prior to they passed away by suicide. 10 other trainees likewise were hurt.
Private investigators later on stated that Monteiro and Castro were motivated by the 1999 Columbine High School massacre in the United States, which was, at the time, the most dangerous school shooting because nation’s history.
It has actually considering that been exceeded by shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018, and Robb Elementary School in 2022.
Another United States school shooting happened in Nashville, Tennessee, on Monday early morning, the exact same day as the attack in Brazil. 6 individuals, consisting of 3 kids, were eliminated because attack.
The occurrence in Brazil on Monday likewise comes almost a month after an instructor in southwest France was stabbed to death by a 16-year-old trainee.
Brazilian authorities stated that the 13-year-old suspect in Sao Paulo had actually investigated gun purchases online prior to the stabbing attack.
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