This chronological list of school shootings in the Brazil that occurred at K–12 public and private schools, as well as at colleges and universities, and on school buses. Excluded from this list are the following:
Date | Location | Perpetrator(s) | Dead | Injured | Description | |
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6 March 2001 | Limeira | R. H. E. S. | 1 | 3 | A 16-year-old teenager shot four students, killing one of them at a school in Limeira.[1] [2] | |
6 August 2001 | Macaúbas | Robério Souza de Oliveita | 1[3] | 7 | A farmer shot six students and a teacher with a shotgun at a school in Macaúbas, after the shooting the perpetrator fled and committed suicide.[4] | |
28 October 2002 | Jaguaribe | E. R. | 2 | 0 | Sigma School shooting A student shot dead two of his classmates for bullying him. | |
28 January 2003 | Taiúva | Edmar Aparecido Freitas | 1 | 8 | Taiúva school shooting A former student shot and wounded 8 of his classmates before committing suicide.[5] [6] | |
4 February 2004 | Remanso | Unnamed | 2 | 3 | A 17-year-old shot and killed a 13-year-old student who had previously ridiculed him, and then forced a taxi driver to take him to a nearby school. There, he shot and killed a 23-year-old and wounded two others before being subdued by students. A woman, afraid of getting shot, jumped out of a window in the third floor and broke her legs.[7] | |
7 April 2011 | Realengo | Wellington Menezes de Oliveira | 13[8] | 22 | Rio de Janeiro school shooting A former student shot dead 12 people and wounded another 22 before being shot by police, at which point he committed suicide. | |
22 September 2011 | São Caetano do Sul | David Mota Nogueira | 1 | 1 | A 10-year-old student entered a room using a firearm and shot a teacher, before leaving the room and committing suicide.[9] [10] [11] | |
11 April 2012 | João Pessoa | Unnamed | 0 | 3 | A student shot at people at a state school in João Pessoa, slightly injuring three students.[12] | |
4 July 2013 | Belo Horizonte | Alexandre Esteves dos Santos | 0 | 2 | A 19-year-old man shot two students at a school in Belo Horizonte.[13] | |
20 October 2017 | Goiânia | Unnamed | 2 | 4 | Goyases School shooting A 14-year-old student shot dead two of his classmates and wounded four others. | |
28 September 2018 | Medianeira | Unnamed | 0 | 2 | Two 15-year-old students shot and wounded two of his classmates as a response to bullying before being arrested by police.[14] | |
13 March 2019 | Suzano | Guilherme Taucci Monteiro Luiz Henrique de Castro | 10[15] | 11 | Suzano massacre Two former students killed one of the two's uncle, then shot dead another seven and wounding eleven students at the Professor Raul Brasil State School before committing a murder-suicide. | |
26 September 2022 | Barreiras | Isaque | 1 | 1 | A 14-year-old student shot a wheelchair-bound teenage student before being injured by responding police officers.[16] | |
7 November 2019 | Caraí | Unnamed | 0 | 2 | A student invades a school in Caraí using a firearm, injuring two students in the process.[17] | |
5 October 2022 | Sobral | Unnamed | 1 | 2 | A 15-year-old student invades a school in Sobral using a firearm, injuring two students and killing another one.[18] [19] | |
25 November 2022 | Aracruz | Gabriel Rodrigues Castiglioni | 4 | 12 | Aracruz school shootings A 16-year-old former student attacked two schools in his area, killing four and injuring twelve before he was arrested. | |
19 June 2023 | Cambé | Marcos Vinícius da Silva Damas | 2 | 0 | A former student of an institution in Cambé shot and killed two students. Killing one of them instantly, while the other died the next day.[20] [21] [22] He committed suicide in his prison cell two days later. | |
23 October 2023 | Sapopemba | Unnamed | 1 | 3 | Sapopemba State School shooting A student shot at three students, killing one of them, before turning himself into police. |