What the records say
- When
- 2003
- Kind
- Shooting
- Coordinates
- 21.12° S, 48.45° W
- Description
- 2003 school shooting in Brazil
- Date from
- year in its Wikidata description
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Taiúva school shooting
2003 school shooting in Brazil
On 28 January 2003, a mass school shooting occurred at Escola Estadual Coronel Benedito Ortiz in Taiúva, São Paulo, Brazil. 18-year-old ex-student Edmar Freitas opened fire on people inside the school, wounding eight people before committing suicide. The shooting was motivated by students bullying Freitas during his time at the school.
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- Wikidata: shootings and murdersWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “18-year-old Edmar Freitas opens fire on students and classmates in a school in Taiúva, wounding eight people before killing himself”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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