14-year-old student shot dead this Friday with three companions in a public school in the Brazilian state of Bahia and he committed suicideofficial sources reported.
The attack occurred this Friday afternoon at the Don Pedro I municipal school, in Heliópolis, a town in the interior of the state of Bahia, according to the Regional Secretariat of Public Security.
The young man entered the school with a 38 caliber revolver and headed towards his class, where he shot his three classmates, two young men and a teenager aged 14 to 15, who died on the spot. cut. The attacker committed suicide in the same room.
The governor of Bahia, Jerónimo Rodrigues, regretted new incident of school violence in Brazil in a message he published on social networks, in which he offers all the necessary support to the municipal authorities and the families of the victims.
“I have just received the sad and regrettable news of the death of four young students from the municipal network of the city of Heliópolis. My condolences to all the parents and colleagues of the students,” said the governor.
Rodrigues also said he was determined that the Department of Public Safety conduct a full investigation into what happened and determine if there were anyone else responsible for the tragedy.
In October last year, after a school shooting in São Paulo that left one student dead and three others injuredBrazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said it could not be considered normal for young people to have access to weapons.
Lula severely criticizes transport flexibility policy and the possession of weapons promoted by his predecessor, the far-right leader Jair Bolsonaro, in his government (2019-2022).
Shortly after entering his third term as head of state in January 2023, the progressive invalidated several of Bolsonaro’s measures making it easier to own weapons.
Last year they registered at least nine armed attacks in Brazilian schoolsor almost a third of that in 2022.
The increase in the number of cases led the government to present a bill to Congress last year that turns attacks in schools into a “stinking crime” (atrocious) and increases penalties by almost a third. prison for the attackers.
The project was presented shortly after an attack on a children’s school in the southern town of Blumenau, in which four children were killed and five others injured.
