Police director reports the perpetrators had planned the attack for months
Mourners carry the coffin of Caio Oliveira, one of the victims killed in a shooting at Raul Brasil School, during a collective funeral in Suzano, Brazil, on March 14, 2019.Two young men who stormed their former school in southern Brazil armed with a gun, crossbows and axes, killing seven people, were trying to emulate the 1999 Columbine attack in Colorado and had been planning the assault for months, police said Thursday.
Ferraz said a third person, a 17-year-old former student at the school, had been involved in planning but was not present at the school when the attack happened. What happened next at the K-12 school, partially caught on surveillance camera footage at the building’s entrance and widely distributed in Brazil, was stomach-churning.It showed Monteiro entering and shooting several people in the head as they tried to run away. De Castro followed, first striking wounded people with an axe and then swinging it wildly while scores of students ran past him. De Castro then armed his crossbow and walked farther into the school.
Police seized computers and notebooks from the homes of the two attackers, who were neighbours and lived less than a mile from the school. They also took computers from an arcade near the school that the attackers frequented. “Bullying, they call it. … He stopped going to school … because of this,” she told the Band News TV network.
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