The 13-year-old teenager who killed a teacher and wounded five people at a school in the Vila Sônia neighborhood, in the west of São Paulo, tried to buy a firearm online to use in the attack, but failed.
According to the police, he admitted it in a statement to police chief Marcus Vinicius Reis, head of the 34th PD (Vila Sônia), where the case is being investigated. He also confessed that he carried out the knife attack in his house with part of a pair of scissors and a pillow.
“He actually tried to acquire that firearm, did some research on the internet and couldn’t get it, which would certainly cause a much higher fatality rate,” Reis said. The youth reported being bullied at three different schools.
In addition to the Thomazia Montoro public school, where the attack took place, and José Roberto Pacheco, in Taboão da Serra (Grande SP), according to the police, the young man also studied at the Rodrigues Alves public school, on Avenida Paulista, in the central region of São Paulo.
In a note to the family, he said he planned the attack for two years, from when he was 11 years old. In addition to the harassment, he spoke of the sadness and hatred accumulated over the years and that he hid from the family.
Translated by AZAHARA MARTIN ORTEGA
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