Police Say CEFET/RJ Employee Used Registered Pistol to Kill Two as Feminicide Probe Nears Conclusion

Overview

• Allane de Souza Pedrotti Matos, a teaching division coordinator, and Layse Costa Pinheiro, a school psychologist, were shot inside the Maracanã campus on Nov. 28 and later died at Hospital Municipal Souza Aguiar.
• The shooter, João Antônio Miranda Tello Gonçalves, an employee on roughly 60 days’ leave before the attack, died by suicide at the scene.
• Police and witness accounts indicate he sought to return to Allane’s sector, and testimony describes a pattern of aggressive behavior toward women and refusal to be supervised by female managers.
• O Globo reports he was a CAC who used a Glock .380 registered in his name, and investigators found the weapon next to his body with reports of dozens of additional rounds in his belongings.
• The Delegacia de Homicídios da Capital is leading the inquiry, the institution decreed five days of mourning and suspended activities at the Maracanã unit until Dec. 5, and families and colleagues are pressing for answers on prior complaints and his return to the campus.