This is a list of school shootings in South America. The list includes shootings that occurred in primary, secondary, and post-secondary schools, as well as on school buses. This list does not include other types of attacks, such as arson, stabbings, and others. The term "school shooting" excludes:
Cases involving conflicts. Suicide of one or more individuals. Cases committed during police operations.
List of deadliest school shootings in continent with more than three deaths #DateLocationCountryDeadInjuredTotalArticle1°7 April 2011Rio de Janeiro CityBrazil132235Rio de Janeiro school shooting2°13 March 2019SuzanoBrazil91120Suzano massacre3°25 November 2022AracruzBrazil41115Aracruz school shootings4°18 October 2024HeliópolisBrazil404Heliópolis school shooting5°6 October 1999CampinasBrazil369Campinas school shooting6°28 September 2004Carmen de PatagonesArgentina358Carmen de Patagones school shooting7°17 December 1999ValparaísoChile314Valparaíso school shootings8°16 March 2019IquiqueChile303Iquique military school shooting8°28 November 2025Rio de Janeiro CityBrazil303Maracanã school shooting
20th century DateLocationDeadInjuredTotalDescription 1967 30 June 1967São Paulo City, Brazil2Including the perpetrator.02Brasil Acióli Júnior, 20, shoots his 18-year-old girlfriend to death in the classroom before killing himself. 196919 April 1969Curitiba, Brazil112Marcel Bergmann kills a teacher with multiple shots to the head and heart before fleeing. During the escape, Bergmann hits a second teacher in the head with the butt of a gun. 19717 October 1971Cabo do Santo Agostinho, Brazil112Severino Matos de Vasconcelhos shot and killed one student and seriously injured another before being arrested. 197216 December 1972Juiz de Fora, Brazil123Nilson Resende went to a school and killed a student and injured her boyfriend, before trying to kill himself with a shot to the head. 198524 August 1985São Paulo City, Brazil202João Francisco Varjão Filho, 23, broke into a college and killed a student who had rejected him, before killing himself. 199427 July 1994Brasília, Brazil112Psychologist Ricardo de Brito Rocha, 40, fought with a student before shooting him and another colleague, who later died in hospital. 199511 December 1995São Paulo City, Brazil213Christian Hartmann, a 21-year-old student, shoots his two classmates, including a female student he liked, killing her, before committing suicide with a gunshot to the mouth. 19961 April 1996Lorena, Brazil112Antônio Carlos de Costa, 29, opened fire inside the university, killing a 44-year-old professor and injuring his 41-year-old secretary, before fleeing.14 August 1996São Paulo, Brazil011A 15-year-old accidentally shot a classmate in the mouth with a revolver, wounding him. 19976 May 1997Buenos Aires, Argentina011A football-related fight resulted in an 18-year-old student striking a 21-year-old classmate.9 May 1997Buenos Aires, Argentina101A 14-year-old student took a firearm from his father to school and accidentally, the gun went off, killing a student.24 November 1997Taboão da Serra, Brazil1Only the perpetrator.12After a fight, the student, Rodolfo Eduardo Kersul, 17, tries to shoot his classmates, but accidentally hits his 18-year-old friend before killing himself. 199830 April 1998Iguatu, Brazil112Gilcimar Bianchi, 21, broke into a school bus and took a student, his ex-girlfriend, hostage, in addition to freeing the students and the driver. After hours of negotiations with the police, Bianchi shot and seriously wounded the student in the head and shot himself in the head, dying days later in the hospital. 199919 April 1999Ribeirão Preto, Brazil112The young N. A. S., 13, fired shots in front of a school that hit and killed a 17-year-old student on the court, in addition to wounding a 14-year-old student in the foot.11 May 1999Lorena, Brazil011A 14-year-old student was accidentally shot in the leg in a school bathroom.6 October 1999Campinas, Brazil369Campinas school shooting: Four men stormed a school in Campinas, killing three students with gunshots and wounding six others, in addition to beating a seventh. The squad escaped the school after the crime; only one of them was arrested and tried.17 December 1999Valparaíso, Chile2 (in the first attack)
1 (in the second attack)0 (in the first attack)
1 (in the second attack)2 (in the first attack)
2 (in the second attack)Valparaíso school shootings: Iván Arancibia Navarro, 47, drove to a high school with his daughter before killing her and a principal. Arancibia escaped and drove to a second school, killing another principal, before shooting himself in the mouth.
21st century