13-year-old student kills 2 women at school in Brazil

Crime 13-year-old student kills 2 women at school in Brazil, authorities say Updated on: May 6, 2026 / 6:35 AM EDT / CBS/AP Add CBS News on Google A school shooting Tuesday in Acre state in northern Brazil left two women dead and two others injured, including an underage student, authorities said.The state government said in a statement that a 13-year-old student admitted carrying out the attack at the public school Instituto Sao Jose in Rio Branco, the state capital.The two fatalities were female staff members who died at the scene. Another staff member and a student were injured by gunfire and taken to a hospital. The injured student, an 11-year-old girl, was shot in the leg.Officials did not disclose the victims' identities. Police said the suspect was detained and used a gun owned by a legal guardian. Local media reported the weapon belonged to the teenager's stepfather, who was also detained.The suspect fired several shots in a hallway leading to the principal's office, Lieutenant Colonel Felipe Russo of the Acre military police department told reporters. He surrendered to police after the attack.Eduardo Rodrigues Cavalcante, a receptionist at a hotel adjacent to the school, described scenes of terror, as some students tried to jump over a wall separating the school from the hotel."The wall is six meters high, and only one person managed to jump over and take refuge here in the hotel. The other people were left on the school roof trying to escape," the 19-year-old receptionist said, adding that he heard "gunshots and a lot of screaming." Emergency responders help a woman after a shooting at the Sao Jose school, where two staff members were killed, the Acre state government confirmed in a statement, in Rio Branco, Brazil, May 5, 2026. Sergio Vale / REUTERS Images released by a local media outlet showed a woman being evacuated on a stretcher and scenes of heartbreak outside the school, with people crying and hugging each other. "The state expresses deep solidarit...