RIO DE JANEIRO, April 7. The Health Secretariat of Rio de Janeiro has corrected the death toll in school shooting in the neighborhood of Crown and has confirmed that, so far, have been registered a total of 11 fatalities. Among the dead there would be nine girls between 12 and 14 years, according to the newspaper O Globo.
The bullets hit more than 30 students are being treated in different hospitals in Rio de Janeiro. The alleged perpetrator is an alumnus of 23 years identified as Wellington Menezes de Oliveira. According to initial accounts, the dead man broke in the local school Tasso da Silveira, located in the neighborhood of Realengo, west of the city of Rio de Janeiro, after 0800 hours (13:00 to mainland Spain).
The attack might have continued for about five minutes. The murderer died after the attack. "We do not know if the person had been killed or committed suicide, nor know the reason that led to this act of madness that caused this tragedy," said the official Ibis Pereira, of the Military Police of Rio de Janeiro, told the press.
Menezes de Oliveira had left a letter in which he informs the reasons that led him to threaten students and school officials, has revealed its part, the deputy prefect of the western area of Rio de Janeiro, Edmar Teixeira. In the letter, religious content, Menezes de Oliveira confesses that he is HIV positive, Teixeira explained, without disclosing further details of the text which will be reviewed by the courts. 
The bullets hit more than 30 students are being treated in different hospitals in Rio de Janeiro. The alleged perpetrator is an alumnus of 23 years identified as Wellington Menezes de Oliveira. According to initial accounts, the dead man broke in the local school Tasso da Silveira, located in the neighborhood of Realengo, west of the city of Rio de Janeiro, after 0800 hours (13:00 to mainland Spain).
The attack might have continued for about five minutes. The murderer died after the attack. "We do not know if the person had been killed or committed suicide, nor know the reason that led to this act of madness that caused this tragedy," said the official Ibis Pereira, of the Military Police of Rio de Janeiro, told the press.
Menezes de Oliveira had left a letter in which he informs the reasons that led him to threaten students and school officials, has revealed its part, the deputy prefect of the western area of Rio de Janeiro, Edmar Teixeira. In the letter, religious content, Menezes de Oliveira confesses that he is HIV positive, Teixeira explained, without disclosing further details of the text which will be reviewed by the courts.
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