Teenage girl plotting mass shooting at high school is arrested after gun misfires
Daily MailA 19-year-old student who wanted to find 'peace' with herself shot a classmate at a high school in the northern Brazilian town of Natal on Tuesday, the Rio Grande de Norte Civil Police said. Lyedja Santos, a 19-year-old student, was arrested Tuesday after she shot an 18-year-old classmate in the head at E. Berilo Wanderley School, a high school in the northern Brazilian city of Natal. Her classmate remained hospitalized as of Wednesday and is in stable condition A student restrained Lyedja Santos while teachers tended to the wounded classmate who was shot in the head by Santos Authorities also found a handwritten note that Santos had on her in which she detailed the motive behind the failed school massacre. She was scheduled to appear in court Wednesday Authorities seized three knives and the.38 caliber revolver that the 19-year-old girl used to shoot her high school classmate Lyedja Santos prepared a handwritten note to explain her motive: 'I acted alone, I acquired everything on my own and no one knew anything about it.