A student, who was allegedly bullied because he was gay opened fire at a school in Brazil on Monday, killed a 17-year-old student and wounded two others. Police arrested him at the scene.
omersukrugoksu/Getty Images(SAO PAULO) A 13-year-old student stabbed four teachers and two other students at a school in São Paulo, Brazil, on Monday, officials said.
Elisabete Tenreiro, 71, one of the teachers injured in the attack at Thomazia Montoro public school, later died from a heart attack at University Hospital of São Paulo, officials told ABC News.
The teenage suspect, who was not publicly identified, was taken into custody, an official with the São Paulo Governor’s Office said.
A motive was not yet known, but the suspect was said to have had problems with other students within the last week, official said. The suspect apparently also searched online how to purchase a gun, they said.
“I have no words to express my sadness,” São Paulo Gov. Gomes de Freitas, who was in London at the time of the attack, said in a statement posted to Twitter.
Monday s attack was in the Vila Sonia neighborhood, a low-income area in western São Paulo. School attacks have become mo
omersukrugoksu/Getty Images (SAO PAULO) A 13-year-old student stabbed four teachers and two other students at a school in São Paulo, Brazil, on Monday,
omersukrugoksu/Getty Images(SAO PAULO) A 13-year-old student stabbed four teachers and two other students at a school in São Paulo, Brazil, on Monday, officials said.
Elisabete Tenreiro, 71, one of the teachers injured in the attack at Thomazia Montoro public school, later died from a heart attack at University Hospital of São Paulo, officials told ABC News.
The teenage suspect, who was not publicly identified, was taken into custody, an official with the São Paulo Governor’s Office said.
A motive was not yet known, but the suspect was said to have had problems with other students within the last week, official said. The suspect apparently also searched online how to purchase a gun, they said.
“I have no words to express my sadness,” São Paulo Gov. Gomes de Freitas, who was in London at the time of the attack, said in a statement posted to Twitter.
Monday s attack was in the Vila Sonia neighborhood, a low-income area in western São Paulo. School attacks have become mo