SAO PAULO, Brazil — A gunman opened fire Tuesday in a cathedral in the southeastern Brazilian city of Campinas near Sao Paulo, killing four worshippers before committing suicide as police shot at him, officials said. Police speaking to the G1 news website identified the gunman as a 49-year-old who resided in Valinhos, a town near Campinas. You can imagine that I'm shocked," one woman who was attending the mass told Globo TV. 'Innocent people'A police officer told Globo TV that most of those in the cathedral at the time were elderly. Seventy percent of murders in Brazil are committed with firearms, according to the Forum for Public Security monitoring group.

Source: Philippine Star December 12, 2018 01:07 UTC