In 2011, 12 students were killed by a gunman who roamed the halls of a school in Rio de Janeiro. Besides the five students killed Wednesday, the dead included a teacher and a school administrator, said Joao Camilo Pires de Campos, the state’s public secretary. Nine others were wounded in the school attack, he said. “This is the saddest day of my life,” de Campos told reporters outside the school in the Sao Paulo suburb of Suzano. Instead of facing officers, Monteiro shot de Castro in the head and then shot himself, authorities said.

Source: Washington Post March 14, 2019 01:07 UTC