The gunman had entered the Tasso da Silveira school wearing a backpack and told officials he was there to deliver a speech, before opening fire in a classroom.
11 children were fatally shot and at least 18 others, mostly students, were wounded. Police subsequently exchanged gunfire with the assailant, who was carrying two guns and a suicide note, before he killed himself.
The shooter was identified as 24-year-old Wellington Menezes de Oliveira, a former student at the school involved. "It is not known why he fired,'' Colonel Ibis Pereira, a spokesman for the Rio de Janeiro military police said.
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