Barcelona school killing

Barcelona School killing
Location Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Date 20 April 2015
9:20 - 9:40
Attack type
 School shooting stabbing
Weapons crossbow, machete
Deaths 1
Non-fatal injuries
 4
Perpetrator Max Porta (13 years old student)

On April 20, 2015 a 13-year-old Max Porta carried out an attack at the high school IES Joan Fuster in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, killing one teacher and injuring four others.[1]

Porta was armed with a crossbow and a machete,[2] On arrival to school, he started shooting in a class with the crossbow, resulting in a teacher being killed and four students injured.

The attack was the first documented case of a student killing a teacher in Spain.[3]

Attack

Porta began the attack by arriving late to class, and firing a crossbow into the face of a female teacher. The student then fatally stabbed another teacher, Abel Martínez Oliva, as Martínez came to help the female teacher.

Two other students were injured in the attack, including the daughter of the female teacher.

The attack ended when the school P.E. teacher, David Jurado Fernández, managed to talk the student down. According to Jurado, he found the student in the second floor classroom with a knife, a crossbow, a backpack, and manipulating a beer bottle to make a molotov cocktail. Jurado then told the student that he was hurting more people than he realized and asked him to show him what he had in his backpack. The student did, then collapsed in tears into Jurado's arms. [4]

Jurado then sat with the student in the classroom until the police arrived.[5]

Victims

One teacher was killed in the attack, and four others were injured.

The teacher killed was a substitute teacher who had only recently begun working at the school. Two additional teachers and two students were also injured in the attacks. None of the injured victims were reported to have been seriously injured.[2]

Perpetrator

Max Porta was identified as the 13-year-old student also known as the suspected attacker of this school.

After the attack, the suspect's classmates and close friends said that he "was a withdrawn boy who had academic problems". They, along with most other people, were aware of a "blacklist" which included twenty people's names who he wanted to kill. Friends argued that he had spent months talking about it, but they thought it was a "sick joke". The Minister of Education said that the boy was admitted and assessed at the Sant Joan de Dèu hospital, where he was diagnosed with a psychotic breakdown.

References

  1. ↑ "Spain pupil with 'crossbow' kills teacher in Barcelona". BBC.com. 20 April 2015. Retrieved 6 November 2017.
  2. 1 2 Burgen, Stephen (20 April 2015). "Boy armed with crossbow kills teacher in Barcelona". theguardian.com. Retrieved 6 November 2017.
  3. ↑ Frayer, Lauren (20 April 2015). "Teen held in teacher's death following crossbow attack in Barcelona". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 6 November 2017.
  4. ↑ Alexander, Harriet (21 April 2015). "Barcelona crossbow attack: 'He collapsed sobbing like a child'". The Telegraph.
  5. ↑ Navarro, Mayka (21 April 2015). ""Lo abracé y empezó a llorar"". El Periódico de Catalunya.
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