Brazilian police on Tuesday arrested a teenager suspected of involvement in planning last week's high school shooting that left eight people dead and shocked a country long-used to deadly gun violence.
The 17-year-old was initially detained on Friday, but later released after denying taking part in the attack near Sao Paulo by two ex-pupils, who committed suicide.
A judge ordered the boy's arrest after police obtained new evidence from his home and cell phone, and those of the killers, a police official in Sao Paulo told AFP on the condition of anonymity.
The teenager, a former classmate of one of the attackers, can be held for a maximum 45 days without charge.
Brazil is one of the deadliest countries in the world, with 64,000 murders in 2017 -- a rate of almost 31 per 100,000 inhabitants, or three times higher than the level the United Nations classifies as endemic violence.
The shooting has fueled debate over whether far-right President Jair Bolsonaro's measures to relax gun ownership rules, or images from similar such mass shootings on US school and university campuses, were to blame for the attack.
Brazilian police on Tuesday arrested a teenager suspected of involvement in planning last week’s high school shooting that left eight people dead and shocked a country long-used to deadly gun violence.
The 17-year-old was initially detained on Friday, but later released after denying taking part in the attack near Sao Paulo by two ex-pupils, who committed suicide.
A judge ordered the boy’s arrest after police obtained new evidence from his home and cell phone, and those of the killers, a police official in Sao Paulo told AFP on the condition of anonymity.
The teenager, a former classmate of one of the attackers, can be held for a maximum 45 days without charge.
Brazil is one of the deadliest countries in the world, with 64,000 murders in 2017 — a rate of almost 31 per 100,000 inhabitants, or three times higher than the level the United Nations classifies as endemic violence.
The shooting has fueled debate over whether far-right President Jair Bolsonaro’s measures to relax gun ownership rules, or images from similar such mass shootings on US school and university campuses, were to blame for the attack.
