A Brazilian teen who killed folks and wounded 13 extra whereas capturing up two faculties wore a swastika on army fatigues within the cold-blooded assaults, police mentioned.

The 16-year-old — who has not been named due to his age — opened fireplace Friday inside two faculties in Aracruz, a city in Espirito Santo state in southeastern Brazil. The colleges sit on the identical road within the city, about 275 miles north of Rio de Janeiro.

On the first capturing scene, a public grade college, two academics had been killed. The shooter was a scholar at that faculty till June, police mentioned.

An officer stands guard outside a police station where a suspect in two school shootings was held in Aracruz, Espirito Santo State, Brazil, on Friday.

A teen lady was killed on the second college, a personal college to which the attacker had no connection, in accordance with investigators.

The teenager used two weapons within the shootings, each of which had been registered to his father, cops mentioned. The daddy is a army police officer in Brazil, and one of many firearms was his service weapon and the opposite was a private weapon.

Investigators mentioned {the teenager} deliberate the assault for 2 years. He gained entry to a trainer’s lounge at his old fashioned by breaking a lock, in accordance with police.

One of the schools where an armed man opened fire in Aracruz, Espirito Santo State, Brazil, on Friday. The man killed at least three people and wounded 11 more at two schools, Brazilian authorities said.

The teenager’s household mentioned he’d been handled for psychological well being issues.

“This reveals how the violence tradition is a actuality for some folks, particularly younger folks. It is a psychological well being situation which society has to take care of these days,” Espirito Santo Gov. Renato Casagrande mentioned.

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