Brazil cathedral shooting: five dead in church attack

Shooter identified as a 49-year-old systems analyst with no criminal record

Campinas cathedral shooting
Municipal workers in the city of Campinas in southeast Brazil carry a body out of the cathedral 
(Image credit: Ari Ferreira/AFP/Getty Images)

A gunman opened fire inside a Brazilian cathedral yesterday, killing four people and wounding seven others before turning the gun on himself.

Subscribe to The Week

Escape your echo chamber. Get the facts behind the news, plus analysis from multiple perspectives.

SUBSCRIBE & SAVE
https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/flexiimages/jacafc5zvs1692883516.jpg

Sign up for The Week's Free Newsletters

From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox.

From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox.

Sign up