Overview

• Two students were shot dead and three were wounded during the morning interval at Escola Estadual Luís Felipe in Sobral on September 25.
• The victims were identified as Victor Guilherme Sousa de Aguiar, 17, and Luis Claudio Sousa Oliveira Filho, 16, with three other teenagers injured.
• Police arrested a 29-year-old in flagrante in the Sumaré neighborhood, citing prior convictions and an outstanding warrant for a July homicide that now leaves him facing four homicide counts.
• Authorities say at least eight pieces of evidence link the detainee to the attack, the suspect denies involvement and contradicted himself in questioning, and a second gunman is being sought.
• Investigators seized drugs, a precision scale, and packaging at the scene, pursue a faction and drug-trafficking motive, and note an NGO’s August alert about a threatened student that Seduc says concerned someone not involved; classes were suspended for two days with psychological support planned on return.