RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - killed stalking the halls of his unique elementary school, 10 girls and two young 23-year-old Wellington Oliveira, most with shots to the head even like children asked him to stop, witnesses said.
Oliveira took his own life after the police shot hit his legs and sent down some stairs overthrow him, but not before carrying out what crime school in Brazil's history, the worst massacre demand experts.
Witnesses said he entered the Tasso Silveira de Janeiro on Thursday school in Rio, ammunition armed with two pistols and a belt shoot students and repeatedly shouting: "I'll have to kill you all!"
"He already many children on the first floor and in the courtyard had killed," said student jade Ramos the Globo TV network. "He kept telling the children against the wall and was on the head shoot." The children beg, 'Please no!' "There was a lot of blood, children on the stairs painful."
Ramos said they escape using you locked and barricaded the door in a classroom with a teacher with tables. Images, with a cell phone and posted on YouTube run wild, showed students scream for help, many with their white and blue school shirts in blood soaked.
Families under the attack planned for the funerals of the dead their children Friday, while Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, they do their best said, visit to the monuments.
"I for one minute of silence for these children questions that their lives were taken as early," said Rousseff, her eyes with tears welling. "It is not in the nature of our nation, to have these types of crimes."
With a dozen children, 11 more were reported dead in hospital for wounds or other injuries, at least two of them in a grave condition. The age of the children were not immediately known, although the school provides classes from one to eight.
Elias slipped on news of his nephew, a 14-year-old boy, as Silva wait speed outside a hospital to a pool of blood and twisted it the school pull his ankle as fled along a friend in an instant, when the gunman stopped, to reload. His nephew escaped, but the girl was shot in the back and died, the uncle said.
"I asked God for him alive to come, and he did", Silva says. "He came running out and thought to try to save his friend." "This will be difficult for him to understand."
Andreia Machado tearfully what told her 13-year-old daughter, said Thayane, her for surgery.
Thayane was hit by three bullets and lost feeling in her legs, because their spine was hit, said the mother. With tears strip Machado asked her cheeks when their daughter always in the position to foot would be.
"it is such an active child," she said. "This is who I again running her unable to have biggest fear." "But we trust in God."
Oliveira once said officials the Tasso as Silveira attended school in a working class neighborhood in the Western Rio.
The motive of the attack was not known, but the shooter said authorities left one extravagant and often incoherent letter on the scene indicates that he wanted to kill themselves.
The letter also extensively described in a white sheet in a bag in the first room where he said leave, he would start shoot how Oliveira's body maintained for wanted - to be bathed and packed. The letter also States, that the gunman should not by anyone, be touched "unclean" is when you are wearing gloves.
"If possible I would like to be buried next to my mother." A follower of God must visit at least once to my grave. He must pray before my grave and God what I have done to me, forgive ask "Read the letter, which site was posted on the Globo TV station."
Edmar Peixoto, Deputy Mayor of Western Rio, said that the letter also stated that the shooter had the AIDS virus.
Oliveira neighbors said the newspaper Jornal do Brasil it not, that the quiet young man who believe his head was kept low and was the misery was responsible for so much bloodshed.
"He was never violent;" he get in trouble, throwing stones or fight in the streets, "said Edna de lira Ferreira, 55."he was only quiet, and we respect the art, how, who he was."" "He was only in his room at the computer."
Oliveira was a Jehovah's witness as his adoptive parents and other five children, said Ferreira.
An another neighbor, Elma Pedrosa, Oliveira as a unusual youth, who looked way, as he known pass, instead they greet in memory.
"He was anti-social, but he was never violent tendencies," she said.
The public school was where celebrates its 40th anniversary, and students 'handmade could be seen window posters commemorating the day by school.
About 400 people were in the school, if started shooting about 8:30 am
As Oliveira for the first time in the school received telling staff he was there a lecture keep Rio police chief Martha Rocha said. Shortly after he opened fire.
The gunman added no criminal record, Rocha at a press conference.
Rio is widely used a drug gang violence his large slums, but school shootings are rare.
"What is happening in Rio is without a doubt the worst incident of its kind in Brazil have taken place", said expert at the University of S?o Paulo Guaracy Mingardi, a crime and public security.
Police were alerted to the shooting if at least one with a gunshot wound, up to two officers on patrol over two blocks away was two young boys. The officers sprinted to the school and at least one quickly the contactor is traded in the second floor and recorded with him.
Officer Marcio Alves said "He saw me and a gun at me addressed". "I shot him in the legs, he fell down the stairs and then shot himself in the head."
Rio Mayor Eduardo PAES said life in the four story, pastel yellow and green school turned into a "hellish nightmare".
PAES said "this day so much would have been worse, if it weren't for the hero policeman," reporters at the school.
Authorities temporarily while they investigate, but PAES said that it reopen the school would close.
Rio Governor Sergio Cabral, the shooter known as a "psychopath" and said, there was no evidence that helped someone else in the shooting, but that the investigation would continue.
"We have to investigate where he weapons and he learned to use," the Governor said.
Associated press writers Bradley Brooks, Stan Lehman and tales Azzoni Sao Paulo contributed to this report.
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