"I ask for a minute's silence for the children that their lives taken away so quickly," said Rousseff in a ceremony in the capital Brasilia, which was quoted by the Associated Press (AP). He said it with a mournful voice while tears.
The first woman to become president of Brazil did not believe there is a tragedy when a brutal shootings claimed the lives of 12 children with school. The perpetrator had committed suicide after police surrounded.
"That is not the character of our nation to commit a crime so," Rousseff said in a speech at a national forum of businessmen. "This tragedy is not unexpected happens in Brazil," said Education Minister Fernando Haddad was quoted as saying of The Christian Science Monitor.
According to the Ministry of Health and Civil Defense, as quoted by AP, the school pupil who was killed was composed of ten women and two men. They seems to be a random target and the average age between 12 to 15 years.
Unknown gunman named Wellington Oliveira. Now 23 years old, had attended a Tasso Oliveira da Silveira, who became the shooting location.
Police are still investigating the motive for the shooting was brutal. Based on the writing on a piece of paper near the offender, the possibility Oliveira was already intending to carry out massacres and suicide.
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