Gunman in Brazil kills 12 schoolchildren before killing himself

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff lamented the deaths of "defenseless children."

"It's not in the nature of our nation to have these types of crimes," she said.

A Religious Man? so his suicide note would have you believe,

"If possible I want to be buried next to my mother. A follower of God must visit my grave at least once. He must pray before my grave and ask God to forgive me for what I have done,"

I'm sure people will come to his grave and do more than pray.



The Detroit Free press
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil -- A gunman roamed the halls of a Rio de Janeiro elementary school Thursday and killed 12 children, lining them up against a wall and shooting them in the head at point-blank range as he shouted, "I'm going to kill you all!"

It was the worst school shooting in Brazil -- and would have been deadlier if the gunman had not been shot in the legs by a police officer, who said the man then fell down some stairs and shot himself in the head.

Rio de Janeiro state's Secretariat of Health and Civil Defense said in a statement on its Web site that at least 12 other students were injured and taken to hospitals. At least two were in grave condition.

Rio police kill 7; total of 33 dead in drug war

I always thought Rio was a happy place ! Maybe it has been happy too long ?
And now it looks like it is turning into another Mexico !

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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Police killed seven suspected drug traffickers in Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday, bringing to 33 the total number of deaths since the city's worst recent outbreak of violence erupted over the weekend.

Three suspects were killed after they opened fire on police searching a slum in the north of the city for gang members linked to shooting down a police helicopter on Saturday, police spokesman Oderlei Santos said.

Four others were killed in separate operations in the city's wealthier southern zone, police said.

State authorities have mobilized several thousand police to secure the city and search for drug traffickers who brought the helicopter down, killing three police officers.

Twenty-seven suspected gang members and three residents caught in cross-fire between gangs have been killed since Saturday in violence that has tarnished Rio's image only a few weeks after it was awarded the 2016 Olympics.

Real Nice , the 2016 Olympics should be even more entertaining , they can keep cutting back and forth between Gymnastics and Track and field to Drug induced riots And police killing people !