Overview

• Unidentified attackers opened fire from the sidewalk toward students in a parking lot at Escola Estadual Professor Luiz Felipe in Sobral, according to the state security agency.
• Two adolescents, ages 16 and 17, were killed, and three others were injured, with two of the wounded discharged from medical care the same day, local media reported.
• Some outlets reported that the shots came from assailants on a motorcycle, though officials described gunfire from the sidewalk as the working account.
• Police are conducting forensic examinations and searching for those involved, and no arrests or identifications of suspects have been announced.
• Preliminary lines of inquiry point to gang disputes over drug trafficking, reinforced by reports that drugs, a precision scale, and packaging material were found with one victim.