2011 Rio de Janeiro School Shooting --

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12 killed 12 wounded April 7, 2011 2011 Rio de Janeiro School Shooting 12 children aged between 12 and 14 were killed^[4] and 12 others seriously wounded after Wellington Menezes de Oliveira a 23-year-old former pupil  entered Tasso da Silveira Municipal School an elementary school in Realengo in a suburb of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It was the first non-gang school mass shooting in Brazil. Olivera was a lifelong Jehovah's witness who had left the church 4 years before and had converted to Islam in the previous 2 years who was obsessed with terrorist attacks and the September 11 attacks. Jose Sarney, president of the Senate and a former President of the Brazil, called it an act of terrorism. It looks like a precursor to the 2012 Sandy Hook attack on an elementary school by a grown former student who had a mother with ties to the prepper movement, but no apparent ties to Islam.

The police stressed that they found no concrete evidence of a religious or political motive for the attack but texts found at Oliveira's home suggest that he was obsessed with terrorist acts and Islam which he described as the most correct religion, as Oliveira had turned to Islam two years beforehand. he attended the mosque in downtown Rio and that he would study the Qur'an for four hours daily.^[15] He also describes his association with "Abdul", who came from overseas and who boasted about having taken part in the September 11 attacks.^[15] He also indicated his desire to move to a Muslim majority country, either Egypt or Malaysia.

In his last wishes, he asked to be buried in a way that reflected some aspects of Islamic tradition, including in a white sheet he said he left in a bag on the first floor of the school, but he also asked Jesus for eternal life. In the only reference to his deed, he sought “God’s forgiveness for what I have done.”

Alternative view: This was a Brazil precursor to Sandy Hook, with a Jehovah's Witness converted to militant Islamist suspect. December 14, 2012, Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting  20-year-old Adam Lanza fatally shot twenty children and six adult staff members in a mass murder at Sandy Hook Elementary School in the village of Sandy Hook in Newtown, Connecticut.

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The perpetrator was identified as Wellington Menezes de Oliveira (July 13, 1987 ...both Jehovah's Witnesses and Islam leaders in Rio denied Oliveira's claims.

The perpetrator was identified as Wellington Menezes de Oliveira (July 13, 1987 - April 7, 2011) a 23-year-old former pupil of the school. Local police confirmed they had a letter stating the perpetrator's intention to commit suicide. The police stressed that they found no concrete evidence of a religious or political motive for the attack. Texts found at Oliveira's home suggest that he was obsessed with terrorist acts and Islam which he described as the most correct religion. A neighbor said Oliveira had turned to Islam two years beforehand. In his letters, Oliveira states that he attended the mosque in downtown Rio and that he would study the Qur'an for four hours daily. He also describes his association with "Abdul", who came from overseas and who boasted about having taken part in the September 11 attacks. He also indicated his desire to move to a Muslim majority country, either Egypt or Malaysia. However, both Jehovah's Witnesses and Islam leaders in Rio denied Oliveira's claims.

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Rio de Janeiro school shooting

Classification: Mass murderer

Characteristics: Shooting rampage

Number of victims: 12

Date of murder: April 7, 2011

Date of birth: July 13, 1987

Victim profile: Children aged between 10 and 13

Method of murder: Shooting (a .38-caliber and a .32-caliber revolver)

Location: Realengo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Status: Committed suicide by shooting himself in the head the same day

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Texts found at Oliveira's home

On the morning of April 7, 2011, 12 children aged between 10 and 13 were killed and 20 others seriously wounded after an armed man entered Tasso da Silveira Municipal School (Escola Municipal Tasso da Silveira), an elementary school in Realengo on the western fringe of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is the first time an incident of this kind — a non-gang school shooting with a sizable number of casualties — has been reported in the country.

Incident and casualties

A lone gunman, Wellington Oliveira, entered the school at around 08:30 local time, identifying himself as a former student and asking to see his school history. By presenting himself as such his entrance was allowed, but instead of heading to the school's office he proceeded to the second floor, entering an eighth grade classroom. Some of the victim's accounts say that he was initially very polite, saluting the children and putting his bag on a table, but soon after shot a number of pupils. The perpetrator was armed with a .38-caliber and a .32-caliber revolver with a number of speedloaders. A boy who survived the attack said that Oliveira selectively shot girls while shooting boys only to immobilize them. Ten of the twelve children killed were girls.

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Apr 7, 2011 - Rio de Janeiro's April 7 school shooting is not Brazil's Colombine, but ... up the Tasso da Silveira Municipal School in Realengo in Rio de Janeiro state ... Senate and a former President of the Brazil, called it an act of terrorism.

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In this case, the Rio gunman, Wellington Menezes, was 10 year’s older than his average victim and graduated from the school way back in 1998. Rio civil police chief, Martha Rocha, said Menezes did not have a criminal track record. Media reports said that the Vice Mayor of Realengo, Edmar Peixoto, had informed the police that Menezes left a strange note at the school saying that he was dying of AIDS. The note was given to authorities at 12:50 local time and has not been released to the press until later in the evening. The note said nothing about his dying of AIDS, but was full of religious rhetoric about impurity and asked for a priest to bless his grave so God and Jesus could forgive him. He asked to be buried near his mother.

Just before 08:00 local time, Wellington Menezes entered the Tasso da Silveira School saying he was asked to give a lecture to a classroom during the school’s 40 anniversary. He was carrying two handguns and clips.
Shortly after 08:00, Menezes enters one classroom and starts to open fire. He leaves to another classroom and open fires again.
Sgt Marcos Alexandre Alves is the first on the scene around. Alves meets with Menezes on the second floor of the school as he leaves one of the classrooms and shoots him in the leg. After that, Menezes shot himself in the head and is pronounced dead at 09:28.
Of the 11 killed, 10 were girls. Thirty students were injured; 18 suffering head and neck wounds from the gunshot.
12:20 local time, Menezes body is removed from the school.

http://g1.globo.com/Tragedia-em-Realengo/noticia/2011/04/manuscritos-de-atirador-mostram-fixacao-por-terrorismo.html

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For José Paulo Tapajós, professor of theology at the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, are not works that allow a thorough study of religions. "You will not find these books a more radical side, a more fundamentalist side, can even find, but in a very subtle way," he explains.

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The "Fantastic" had access to manuscripts found in the house of the murderer. There is an exercise in English, loose notes, and the main one: a kind of letter - apparently addressed to a woman, probably written before the death of her mother two years ago.

There are many religious references and signs of suicidal tendencies: "The pleasures and recognition of this world are fleeting things and what matters is to be recognized by God, because it is not limited to the world that I live eternally people but to God."

Wellington is a family of Jehovah's Witnesses, and criticizes parents for not following the precepts of religion strictly:. "My parents have faith in Jehovah, but they fail to comply with the requirements of the congregation" He explains his routine: "Unfortunately I have to share my time with tasks colleges, cleaning the house, going to church and Jehovah's Witnesses. "

In a statement, the leadership of Jehovah's Witnesses in Rio de Janeiro says that "the man who committed the barbaric crimes at the Municipal School Tasso da Silveira was not a member of the religion of Jehovah's Witnesses." And express "solidarity with the victims' families.

Interest in Islam
in recent years seems to Wellington also interested in other religion: Islam. One of the sisters told police the shooter, testified that Wellington started attending a mosque in center of Rio In the letter, he reports a conflict: "You messed with my family, but I moved to the Quran and they do not trust me ".

Wellington makes reference to what would be a group. And reports split time between own prayers and reflections on terrorism."I'm outside the group, but I do every day I pray the midday which is the recognition of God and the other five are of dedication to God and each step four hours a day reading the Koran. Not the book, because he was with the group, but I copied parts for me. And the rest of the time I'm meditating in the read and sometimes meditating on September 11. "

For the professor of theology, change is a clear sign of mental confusion Wellington. "I would find it very difficult for a Jehovah's Witness Jesus really change by Muhammad. Not to be contradictory, it is one against the other, but I kind of complicated by Jesus to be a fanatic fanatic Mohammed, I find it hard to happen, "says Tapajós.

The Sheikh Hassan Jihad said Wellington was not a Muslim and says categorically: "The Islamic religion prohibits such acts. She does not support, does not teach, it does not give these teachings, it does not receive that kind of person, that kind of thoughts, she teaches well. Teaches you how to preserve life, not to take life, "says Hassan.

Despite living in seeming isolation, Wellington Menezes de Oliveira left many clues that need to be followed to understand what was the path that led him to practice such barbarity. Analyze these clues is not an easy job, because you need to separate what is fact, truth and what fiction.

Documents like the "Fantastic" presented raise many questions that need to be answered. For example: Wellington attended any extremist group with links to overseas, as it says in the papers?Or is this just the result of a sick mind?

In the manuscript, Wellington again quote the "group" - and the name of someone who would have come from abroad repeats, Abdul: "I'm sure it was my father who sent them here in Brazil he recognized Abdul and told him ' VIEC 'with others precisely to Rio .. because when I met them and revealed' all 'to them I was' very' well received and there was a big celebration. "

In the same passage, he says something that might be a reference to the events of 11 September.The said Abdul seems to have boasted about having participated in the attack on the twin towers, one bragging to impress Wellington, if true this interpretation: "And Abdul had a conversation with me and told me she met my dad and he came to buy a walkway to one of the flights, but was not part of the plan and used an identity with some erroneous data not thinking ahead to recognize him. " Later comes a new name, Phillip. And signs of disagreement within the group: "I had a fight with Abdul and discovered that Phillip used my PC for viewing porn Regarding Phillip, I expected this (...) Abdul But I did not expect that ... . We got along well and he was always flexible in our conversations and this time it was very hard. "

The reason for the fight would have been a girl of a certain church, that Wellington would have tried to take the group: "It's that I decided to talk about the girl who invited me to her church and before I finished it already cut logo beginning rather than listen to it after that he called me a few times and I said I'm out of respect for the group. "

Obsessed with attacks
Wellington also expressed willingness to meet Muslim countries population: "... I intend to work to get out of this state or maybe I'll go straight to Egypt." Besides the letter, the police found a sheet of loose notes, and a reference to Malaysia, a country with a Muslim majority, where there are some of the tallest buildings in the world.

He notes that you need to check the weather conditions in Malaysia in September, the month of the 2001 attacks in New York. Signs of a delusional mind, obsessed with attacks. In the notes there are expressions like "twin towers", "back photos and data on such climatic conditions in Malaysia in September", "climate", "high towers", "search planes of Malaysia", "flights" and "airports" .

The fixation on terrorism had been perceived by people living with Wellington as the barber who attended him seven years ago. The police, he said that "in the last year Wellington started to grow a beard, reaching lengths up to his chest." When played with Wellington, saying it would cut his beard, the client stopped him, saying "I'll be expelled."

Barber held that Wellington was referring to the group of Islam, because he said that Islam was the right religion, and he was studying the Koran. The meetings, according to testimony, happen in Barra da Tijuca or Recreio, in Rio de Janeiro.

The charge of the investigation did not consider it necessary to open this line of research."Everything away from extremáticos groups.'s So crazy, that cowardly way decided to touch the lives of helpless children and then commit suicide as it happened," says the chief Felipe Ettore.

Spiritual leaders and experts agree that acts as the killer Wellington have nothing to do with religion."The most complex thing when someone can have a fanatical conduct is that he can not see himself as someone who is of an equivalent level to other human beings. He considers himself or chosen, or elected, or a special person. This very complete self-image, one that has no criticism about yourself, it gives a conviction and the conviction becomes obsession and obsession can generate an awful conduct, as we had, "says the philosopher and professor Mario Sergio Cortella, expert in religious studies .

"I think it's important people know differentiating these ultra-radical, intolerant religions traditions of discourses, which are actually millions of people worldwide who are not guided by that level of violence, not guided by anything that has this function destructive, "says Rabbi Nilton Bonder.

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RIO DE JANEIRO – Early on April 7, 2011, in a worn-out neighborhood far from the downtown carnival and beaches of Rio de Janeiro, a 24-year-old who lived alone put two pistols in his belt. Wellington Menezes de Oliveira entered his blanching former grade school and picked off pre-teen girls. “I’m going to kill you. It won’t help to run,” a witness recalled him saying.

That the massacre of 10 young girls and two boys would resonate abroad as the latest case of Islamic extremism was not what I expected as I joined the crowd of journalists and still-stunned witnesses at the scene.

Vitor Abdala, a friend and Brazilian reporter, was the first to tell me in front of the school’s gates that local media was beginning to say the shooter was a Muslim convert.

My snap judgment? Of course someone would say that, like they had already said he had AIDs. I had a looming deadline and didn’t think much about what seemed to be an aberrant and hysterical Islamophobic rumor.

That’s why I was surprised when, after filing my first piece and returning on the long quivering train road home, I began to see the comments on my report: “The guy was a[n] Islamic terrorist. His sister said he was a convert to Islam. And Rio’s police commander said he left a letter saying he was doing that for the glory of Allah. Another Muslim killing children.”

“Brazil shooting puts spotlight on Islamists… again, as usual, the media is silent or blames inanimate objects. The gun did not jump up and suddenly start shooting by itself.”

“What they haven’t or won’t tell you is the guy is a recent dabbler and convert to Islam. … This must remain mum and don’t tell anyone.”

I know that online comments serve at best as a forum for educated debate and at worst as an anonymous board to goad other news watchers with the opinions we don’t want to attach our names to. But nonetheless, the frequency of comments on Islam alarmed me.

Many Brazilian and foreign reporters had either included little or nothing on the rumor, such as I had. However, the New York Times was a rare outlet to devote space to it, citing “a longtime neighbor and former member of Mr. Oliveira’s church” who said the shooter “had been a lifelong Jehovah’s Witness before turning to Islam two years ago.” It also noted that de Oliveira’s cryptic and largely incoherent writings asked for a burial that seemed to reflect aspects of Islamic traditions, though he also asked Jesus for forgiveness.

An older sister of de Oliveira gave a radio interview soon after the shooting, saying that “he spent a lot of time on the computer, he spoke often unintelligible things about Islam and had let his beard grow.” The rabble-rousing news magazine Veja would claim days later to have excerpts of letters written by the shooter, saying that he spent “some four hours a day reading the Koran” and that “sometimes I meditate on 9/11.”

Had it been another characteristic – be it that he was active in the divisive and massively popular Universal Church or had links to organized crime – other reporters and I would have likely considered these statements notable and credible enough to include in our pieces.

That’s why looking back, I started to ask myself: Was it different in this case? What is the responsibility of a reporter in a post-9/11 world, where Islamic extremism and Islamophobia is the stuff of daily news, now, apparently, even in the wornout schools fringing Rio de Janeiro?

I put that question to several others who faced it with me in the days of chaotic media after the shooting, Brazil’s first such school massacre.

My seasoned reporter friend Vitor, for one, simply consulted his editor and asked if she would like him to pursue confirming the shooter’s links to Islam. They decided it wasn’t important.

“After seeing my colleagues trying to report and confirm that rumor, I thought about how the Brazilian press is ruled by the behavior of the foreign press (especially the American and European, where terrorism practiced by Muslims is a real concern),” he later wrote me when I asked him what he thought of my judgment at the time. “It’s not religion that kills people. Those who kill are mentally unstable people who make evil use of religions. Also, the case in Realengo was an isolated case. I think the religious issue would become important if we started to notice several cases of murder or terrorism practiced by ‘Islamic radicals’ within Brazil.”

However, Suzana Singer, ombudsman for Brazil’s Folha de Sao Paulo, defended reporters’ inclusion of statements – such as those by the shooter’s sister – linking de Oliveira with Islam, though she agreed it was over-emphasized in the local media.

“I think that by the time his sister says this, the newspaper has to register it,” she told me, adding that Islam in particular does deserve particular delicacy in today’s political climate. “You have to be careful because, like you said, there is a shadow over this and any news can increase this prejudice. … It exists, not just with Islam, but with Evangelical [Christians] – people think they’re very radical.” It was the first time a national event had created suspicion with Islam in Brazil, she notes.

I also consulted Brazilian Sheikh Jihad Hassan Hammadeh, the vice president of the Sao Bernardo do Campo-based WAMY who, after the shooting, participated in an ecumenical service in front of the school. I had met Sheikh Hammadeh in the WAMY offices in Sao Paulo months before and was personally impressed with him as a public figure who goes out of his way to speak with Brazilian media. He told me that the emphasis on Islam after the massacre indeed led to harassment of women wearing hijab. He attributed the emphasis on the shooter’s sister’s vague statements about Islam to opportunistic journalists who were looking for new facts in a case that dominated the Brazilian papers for days.

“I believe that some journalists were totally irresponsible in search of a hole, a new fact. They ended up acting irresponsibly,” Sheikh Hammadeh said.

I wish I could agree with him. But after seeing how the news spreads in unforeseeable and twisted ways, I changed my mind from the snap judgment I made at the shooting site. I indeed should have included a line in my piece – one that would have emphasized the chaotic environment of rumors circulating at the scene and how this one on Islam fit within it. Having not done so, I left room for the growing body of skeptics to imagine something larger than was actually there. The mainstream media faces accusations of walking on politically correct eggshells and shielding Islam, which opens space and readership for skeptical, right-wing bloggers and writers – such as the ones cited in the manifesto of the accused Norway mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik. While I had thought I would feed hysteria by including a mention of Islam in my reporting, I believe now that I fed it more when I said nothing. We are in a delicate time that demands frank debate. In a post-9/11 world, the reality is that even in a shooting on the gritty outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, a rumor of Islam will indeed make its way around the world. The best we reporters can do is explain it. §

Taylor Barnes is the annual recipient of the Inter American Press Association scholarship in Rio de Janeiro. She writes for the Christian Science Monitor, Foreign Policy and Miami Herald, among other publications.

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Facts unfolding in the case of the gunman who roamed the halls of an elementary school on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro last Thursday, indicate that he practiced fundamentalist Islam and had grand designs of perpetrating a September 11th styled attack against the Christ the Redeemer monument in the Tijuca Forest National Park overlooking Rio de Janeiro.

Rio de Janeiro state's Secretariat of Health and Civil Defense said in a statement that the gunman roamed the halls killing 12 children, assembling them against a wall and shooting them each in the head, execution-style, as he shouted, "I'm going to kill you all!" Authorities said at least 12 other students were injured. At least two were in grave condition. The event was the worst school shooting in Brazilian history.

The dead included 10 girls and two boys, plus the gunman, according to the Health and Civil Defense department. Those killed were between the ages of 12 and 15. One of the boys died at a hospital about 12 hours after the shooting.

The Gunman, Wellington Menenzes de Oliveira, 23, who had once attended the Tasso da Silveira school, located in a working-class neighborhood in western Rio, had no prior police record or history of run-ins with authorities. In fact, Oliveira was seen by his friends and neighbors a the quintessential "quite man," who had suffered from bullying as a child and young adult, and who, according to the gunman's cousin, was a "volcano of conflicted feelings."

According to the Brazilian publican Zero Hora, Oliveira's cousin, who lived with the gunman, said in an interview with Civil Police Homicide Officers that Oliveira was a self-proclaimed fundamentalist Islamist who was self-training to fly aircraft using a computer simulator. He revealed that the gunman was fascinated by the September 11, 2001 al Qaeda attacks on the United States and that he had grand designs of flying an airplane into the famous Christ the Redeemer statue that sits atop Corcovado Mountain overlooking the City of Rio de Janeiro.

Oliveira's cousin said that neighbors in the Sepetiba neighborhood where they had been living for the past two years, had taken to calling him "bin Laden" for the long Islamic-style beard he had grown.

While authorities assumed no motive for the attack, they acknowledged that they four a rambling and incoherent letter at the scene, left by Oliveira, indicating he wanted to kill himself.

The letter explained in detail how the gunman wanted his corpse to be cared for -- bathed and wrapped in a white sheet that he had carried with him in a bag, left in the first room where he started shooting. The letter alluded to his fundamentalist Islamic ideology in stating that his body should not be touched by anyone who is "impure" unless they wear gloves.

The handling of the faithful dead in the Islamic Culture is replete with
conditions and caveats.

"If possible I want to be buried next to my mother," the letter continued. "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," read the letter, portions of which were posted on the Globo television network's website

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