A 13-year-old teenager stabbed to death a 71-year-old teacher on Monday morning (27), at the Thomazia Montoro state school, in Vila Sônia, west of São Paulo. Elisabeth Tenreiro was a science teacher and was attacked from behind. The assailant also injured two students and three other teachers.
The teenager, who is in the 8th grade of primary school, was arrested. According to police, he announced the attack in a social media post, in which he wrote that he had been waiting for this moment “his whole life.” He also said that he hoped to kill at least one person. One of the injured teachers, Ana Célia Rosa, was still hospitalized under observation on Monday afternoon. She underwent surgery and was stable. Professors Jane Gasperini and Rita de Cássia Reis and the students were rescued and released.
Security cameras recorded the moment of the two attacks. The teen, wearing a skull mask, ran into the classroom and pounced on Professor Elisabeth, who was standing. The teacher, who did not notice the student’s arrival, was violently attacked by several stab wounds to her back and fell to the ground. Desperate, the students try to get out of the compound and some are attacked by the student.
A second video shows the teenager attacking another teacher. He stabs the woman several times, who is on her feet and tries to protect herself from her with her arms. Two women enter the classroom, and one of them manages to immobilize the teenager, while the other takes the knife from his hands.
The offending student was new to the center. He was transferred there in early March, after a police complaint was filed by a former college employee for the aggressive behavior of the student, who had been “posting compromising videos, for example, carrying a firearm and simulating violent attacks.”
Translated by AZAHARA MARTIN ORTEGA
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