Suzano massacre

Suzano school massacre
A still footage of one of the attackers aiming at one of the students.
Suzano
Location23°32′04″S 46°18′56″W / 23.5344°S 46.3155°W / -23.5344; -46.3155
Escola Estadual Professor Raul Brasil, Suzano, São Paulo, Brazil
Date13 March 2019 (2019-03-13)
c. 9:40 a.m. (BRT, UTC−03:00)
TargetStudents and staff at Professor Raul Brasil State School
Attack type
School shooting, mass shooting, spree killing, mass murder, murder–suicide
Weapons
Deaths10 (9 at the school, including both perpetrators; and Taucci's uncle at a car shop)
Injured11
Perpetrators
  • Guilherme Taucci Monteiro
  • Luiz Henrique de Castro
Motive
Verdict45 days
ConvictedUnnamed 17-year-old

The Suzano massacre, also known as the Suzano school massacre, was a school shooting that took place on March 13, 2019, at the Professor Raul Brasil State School in the Brazilian municipality of Suzano, São Paulo, in which five students and two school staff members were killed. Before the attack, the perpetrators, 17-year-old Guilherme Taucci Monteiro and 25-year-old Luiz Henrique de Castro, killed Taucci's uncle. After killing most of their victims in the school, Taucci killed his partner and then committed suicide. Eleven additional people were injured by gunshots. Some were injured while trying to escape.

The attack was the second major and second deadliest school shooting in Brazil, after the Realengo massacre in 2011. It is also the ninth fatal school shooting in Brazilian history.

The shooting has inspired many copycat killings in and outside of Brazil.