A gunman opens fire at an elementary school in Rio de Janeiro
Mass murder in 2011 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
🗓️ April 7, 2011 • 📅 ACF Date: 20110407
On the morning of 7 April 2011, a school shooting occurred at the Tasso da Silveira Municipal School, an elementary school in Realengo on the western fringe of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Twelve students were killed and 22 others were seriously wounded by Wellington Menezes de Oliveira, a 23-year-old former student, who committed the attack with two revolvers. Oliveira was intercepted by the police but committed suicide before being arrested. It was the first non-gang-related mass school shooting to be reported in Brazil, and it remains tied with the 1997 São Gonçalo do Amarante massacre and the 2016 Campinas massacre as the deadliest mass shooting by a lone gunman in Brazilian history.
