Rio de Janeiro school shooting
Mass murder in 2011 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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On the morning of 7 April 2011, 12 students aged between 13 and 15 years old were killed[4] and 22 others seriously wounded by Wellington Menezes de Oliveira, who entered the Tasso da Silveira Municipal School (Escola Municipal Tasso da Silveira), an elementary school in Realengo on the western fringe of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It was the first non-gang school shooting with a sizable number of casualties reported in Brazil.[2]
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Location | Tasso da Silveira Municipal School (Escola Municipal Tasso da Silveira), Realengo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
Coordinates | 22.883834°S 43.417405°W / -22.883834; -43.417405 |
Date | 7 April 2011 8:30 – 8:42 (BRT (UTC-3)) |
Attack type | School shooting, mass shooting, mass murder, murder–suicide, shootout |
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Deaths | 13 (including the perpetrator)[2] |
Injured | 22[3] |
Perpetrator | Wellington Menezes de Oliveira[1] |
Motive | Unknown, possibly bullying and/or religious/philosophical fanaticism |
Although police found no concrete evidence of religious or political motives, texts found at Oliveira's home suggest that he was obsessed with terrorist acts and Islam, which he had converted to two years beforehand, after having been a Jehovah's Witness. In his last wishes, he requested to be buried following Islamic traditions, and asked Jesus for eternal life and "God's forgiveness for what I have done."