INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Four people have been killed after a man opened fire in a cathedral in southern Brazil following midday mass.The gunman injured four more
people before being wounded in a firefight with police and then shooting himself in the head, authorities said.The shooting happened right
after the midday service had ended at the Metropolitan Cathedral in Campinas, a city around 100km (60 miles) north of Sao Paulo.Hours after
paramedics were seen taking bodies out of the church, the gunman was identified as 49-year-old Euler Fernando Grandolpho, from Valinhos, a
nearby city in the densely populated state of Sao Paulo.Image:Municipal workers (L) remove the body of one of the victims from the Cathedral
of CampinasGrandolpho, who worked as a systems analyst, was not a member of the church, authorities said.He had held various jobs with
government entities, including a stint as an assistant to the prosecutor in the public ministry in Sao Paulo, according to public
records.Authorities said they had not determined a motive.A backpack found near the dead gunman had his identification but no note or other
clues, police investigator Jose Henrique Ventura said.Image:Municipal workers remove bodies of victims from the cathedral shooting"Thanks to
the intervention of police, something much bigger was avoided," Mr Ventura said, adding that the four injured were in stable
condition.Witness Danielle Coutinho told EPTV said she was sitting in the church chatting after Mass when the gunfire began.A man sitting
close to her was shot as others ran."I saw people getting shot
I can't get it out of my head," she said in tears
"It was horrible."Image:Guards stand next to a covered body at the entrance of the Cathedral of CampinasBrazil is routinely the world leader
in total homicides, though mass shootings are rare
Last year, nearly 64,000 people were killed.President-elect Jair Bolsonaro campaigned on promises to crack down on violence, in part by
loosening gun laws so more civilians could arm themselves.Hamilton Caviola Filho, a police investigator said that authorities had reviewed
surveillance footage from inside the cathedral.The shooter "came into the church, sat on a pew, with time to think, and then got up and
starting shooting," he told news portal G1.
