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Suzano school massacre | |
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Location | Escola Estadual Professor Raul Brasil, Suzano, São Paulo, Brazil |
Coordinates | 23°32′04″S 46°18′56″W / 23.5344°S 46.3155°W |
Date | 13 March 2019 c. 9:40 a.m. (BRT (UTC-3)) |
Target | Students and staff at Professor Raul Brasil State School |
Attack type | School shooting, mass murder, murder–suicide, attempted bombing, shootout |
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Deaths | 10 (9 at the school, including both perpetrators; and Taucci's uncle at a car shop) |
Injured | 11 |
Perpetrators | Guilherme Taucci Monteiro Luiz Henrique de Castro |
Motive | Retaliation for bullying, Far-right extremism, family problems |
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The Suzano Massacre, also known as the Suzano school massacre, was a school shooting and a failed bombing, that took place on March 13, 2019, at the Professor Raul Brasil State School in the Brazilian municipality of Suzano, São Paulo State, The perpetrators, 17-year-old Guilherme Taucci Monteiro and 25-year-old Luiz Henrique de Castro, murdered five students and two school staff members, Before the attack in a car shop near the school, the pair also killed Taucci's uncle. After killing most of their victims in the school, Taucci killed his partner and then committed suicide. Eleven additional people were injured by gunshots, and gunfire was also exchanged with the police. Some were injured while trying to escape.[2][3]
The attack was the second major and second deadliest school shooting in Brazil, after the Realengo massacre in 2011.[4] It is also the ninth fatal school shooting in Brazilian history.
The shooting has inspired many copycat killings in and outside of Brazil.