Boy kills five of his family before going to school

A 13-year-old Brazilian boy killed his police officer parents, his grandmother and his great-aunt before spending a full day at school and then taking his own life, police have revealed.

Police are investigating claims the boy had wanted to become a hitman and had planned the killings.

They said the five bodies were found before dawn inside two houses located on the same property in northern Sao Paulo, Brazil’s biggest city which has a population in its metropolitan area of more than 20m.

“Everything seems to indicate that Marcelo (Pesseghini) killed his parents and relatives,” Itagiba Franco, of the Sao Paulo Civilian Police, told a press conference.

Police said the teen’s parents may have been killed late on Sunday or in the early hours of Monday.

Forensic examinations are under way.

Franco said Pesseghini had told a friend he wanted to kill his parents and become a hitman.

“He always told me he wanted to become a hired killer.

“He had a plan to kill his parents during the night, so that no one would notice and escape in the parents’ car and live in an abandoned place,” police quoted the unidentified friend as saying.

The teenager died from a shot to the left temple and his father’s police-issue service revolver was found nearby, Sao Paulo police commander Benedito Roberto Meira said earlier.

A second gun, a .32 caliber revolver, was found inside the backpack the teenager took to school on Monday, Meira added, saying “there was no sign that someone broke into the house”.

The police commander ruled out “an act of revenge by a criminal group” against the teenager’s father and mother.