Teenager who killed a student at a school in Bahia used his father's gun, who is a military police officer

At least 40 of the approximately 400 students were gathered on the court at Colégio Municipal Eurides Sant'Anna, a civic-military school in western Bahia, when the 14-year-old arrived at the unit armed on Monday morning (26).

The teenager came in shooting and aimed to reach the greatest number of people, according to Civil Police investigations. “He didn’t have a fixed target,” said the delegate responsible for the case, Rivaldo Luz.

According to forensics, the shooter was unable to execute more people due to defects in the revolver, which hindered the shooting. Furthermore, he was unable to reload the bullets during the attack, despite having been equipped with the material.

“At some point, the weapon 'popped' [failed]. There was a certain clumsiness on his part, because the revolver failed at a few moments", informed police chief Rivaldo Luz. "He was not in a position to handle a weapon, which only had six bullets and he would have to reload - and he had material to reload -, he didn't he had time to execute more people”, he added.

Geane da Silva Brito

Initially, the police reported that student Geane da Silva Brito had been shot. The information was corrected during the investigations. The victim, who was 19 years old and in a wheelchair, was killed with a machete. Classes at the school, which is managed by Barreiras City Hall in partnership with the Military Police, were suspended until October 3rd.

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The 14-year-old teenager broke into the school he studies at, in western Bahia, and killed a 19-year-old wheelchair-bound student. Geane da Silva Brito was in the 9th year at the institution. After the attack, group prayers were held by students from Colégio Municipal Eurides Sant'Anna, a militarized teaching unit, which is managed divided between the Military Police and the City Hall of the city of Barreiras (BA). According to the local Civil Police, the shooter also carried two other sharp weapons and, apparently, a homemade bomb. The police also speak of a hate crime and publish an alleged profile of the teenager on social media.

Father's story

According to police chief Rivaldo Luz, who interviewed the minor's father on Monday (26), the military police officer claims that he hid the revolver and that the young man did not have access to it. As the bearer of the weapon used in the attack, he will be able to answer for the case. “The duty of care belongs to the person carrying the weapon, who is the one who has legal authorization,” explained police chief Rivaldo Luz.

According to Rivaldo, “his father is a retired sub-lieutenant in the Federal District. He said the gun was stored. He said that his son was introspective, quiet, had few friends, but was a good boy, got good grades, although he reported that he had missed classes a lot, and had difficulty making friends.”

The PM also reported to the investigation that he “cannot understand the reason” that led his son to carry out the attack.

Hate speech on social media

In your profile on Twitter, the shooter had left a message warning about attack 4 hours before going to school. In the publication, which was banned by the platform after the repercussions of the case, the teenager regretted the fact that he had moved to Bahia and reproduced hate speech against residents of the city of Barreiras and the Northeast Region.

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• Attack on the BA school was announced days before: 'if I kill 2, I'll be happy' (UOL)

According to the boy's father to the Police, “in recent months, [he] started spending a lot of time on social media. His parents didn’t know the types of content he consumed on the internet.”

Ongoing investigation

The school does not have security cameras, but investigators are looking for images from neighboring homes. The teenager was also shot during the crime. Lieutenant Colonel Fábio Santana, from the Military Police, states that the police officers working at the school were unarmed and that the shots that hit the minor possibly came from a person who was passing by at the time of the attack. She has not yet been identified.

The young man was rescued by a team from the Mobile Emergency Care Service (Samu) and taken to the General Hospital of the West. He underwent surgery and his health is considered stable.

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