Rio de Janeiro school shooting

On the morning of 7 April 2011, a mass shooting occurred at the Tasso da Silveira Municipal School, an elementary school in Realengo on the western fringe of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Twelve students were killed and 22 others were seriously wounded by Wellington Menezes de Oliveira, a 23-year-old former student, who committed the attack with two revolvers. The killer was intercepted by the police, but committed suicide before being arrested. It was the first non-gang school shooting with a sizable number of casualties reported in Brazil.

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." According to his adoptive sister and a close colleague, the shooter was reserved and suffered from bullying. Provided by Wikipedia