The men, identified as former students at the school in a suburb of Sao Paulo, also shot and killed the owner of a used car business nearby before launching the attack on the school, authorities said. Nine others were wounded in the school attack and hospitalized, he said. During the attack, Monteiro opened fire with a .38 calibre handgun and de Castro used a crossbow, de Campos said, adding that forensics would determine how each of the victims died. Students gathered outside the school recounted harrowing attacks and seeing several bodies lying in pools of blood. The Raul Brasil Professor public school has more than 1,600 students from elementary to high school grades, teachers gathered outside said.

Source: Otago Daily Times March 13, 2019 19:18 UTC