Rio de Janeiro school shooting

When

7 Apr 2011

Kind

Murder

Killed

13

Coordinates

22.88° S, 43.42° W

Description

Mass murder in 2011 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Injured

22

Cause

school bullying

2011 mass shooting in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

On the morning of 7 April 2011, a school shooting occurred at the Tasso da Silveira Municipal School, an elementary school in Realengo, a western neighbourhood of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Twelve students were killed, and 22 others seriously wounded by 23-year-old Wellington Menezes de Oliveira, a former student who committed the attack with two revolvers.

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