A Brazilian police officer, this Monday, in front of the barrier that was supposed to control the entrance to the public school, where a student opened fire on other students. Isaac Fontana (EFE)
New deadly attack at a school in Brazil, the eighth so far in 2023. A 16-year-old student killed a student by a shot in the head and injured three other people early Monday when he opened fire with a gun at the Sapopemba state school in the city of São Paulo. The attacker was arrested and the weapon was confiscated. According to military police, the attack began at half past six in the morning when the teenager began shooting at his classmates at school. According to the same source, the attacker was a victim of bullying.
The weapon was a .38 caliber revolver that belonged to the attacker’s father, a motorcyclist. The Sao Paulo state government has reported that “three students were hit in the shooting attack.” “One student died and three others are being treated in hospital, including one who was injured while trying to escape.” All the victims are women and two of the wounds are gunshot wounds.
Brazil is experiencing an epidemic of attacks on schools, often carried out by current or former students, with echoes of attacks in the United States. There have been eight similar events so far this year, according to a recent study by the Brazilian Public Security Forum cited by Efe. This number represents a third of those that have occurred in the last two decades, giving an idea of how they have increased recently.
Occasionally, like this Monday, the attacker has used a firearm, although acquiring a firearm is much more complicated in Brazil than in the United States, even after laws were passed during Jair Bolsonaro’s administration to make sales more flexible.
Last April, Brazil was shocked when four children under the age of seven were murdered in a daycare center. That event, less than a month after the fatal stabbing of a student, alarmed the government, which spoke of an epidemic of violence in schools. Security forces deployed to numerous schools and arrested more than 200 youths for making threats.
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