At least 3 people killed and 11 others injured in Brazil school shootings
School shootings and gun violence in US
As many as 11 people were killed and dozens were wounded on Friday at a school in the western state of Mato Grosso, Brazil, after a gunman opened fire with a semiautomatic weapon, police said, the latest in a string of shootings involving school children this year. The attack in the city of Cuiaba, some 200 kilometres (124 miles) from the capital, Belo Horizonte, raised the death toll in these types of massacres to three.
Brazilian man who says he’s the ‘shooter’ behind 2017 school shootings in US says he was targeted because of his activism
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An angry man claimed responsibility for at least three school shootings in the US in 2017. He is wanted in connection over a February shooting at a South Carolina high school, which left one student dead and 10 students wounded.
In February, a former student in South Carolina admitted to police that he fatally shot a boy, killing the 16-year-old. The student, identified by the authorities as 19-year-old Isaiah Burch, said his motive was to protect his family.
In an interview with WISTV, the man said he was targeting people who speak out against gun violence and government policies that he said were eroding the right to bear arms.
“I am here today to tell you what it did to my head. It took me to a point that I had to take a break and I think that was because something really bad had to happen. I think that was the day of the shooting,” he told the station, adding that he chose Cuiaba as a “target because of what had happened in Charleston a few days prior”.
Since then at least 11 people have been killed and dozens wounded in the latest spate of school shootings in the country, according to The New