Three years before entering the Faculty of Sciences, in Lisbon, João cultivated what he now says is an “obsession” that he took into account: he devoured images, videos and information about young assassins who committed massacres in schools and public places and committed suicide after. He was 14 or 15 years old, he doesn’t remember it well, when he immersed himself in the case of Randy Stair, the 24-year-old who in 2017 killed three co-workers in a supermarket and committed suicide. From there, he began to search for information on various mass murders at the same time that he began to think about replicating them. He simply did not do it, in February 2022, because the Judicial Police arrested him before, when they discovered his plan from an FBI alert.
When he was arrested in the rented room in Lisbon, João offered no resistance, but remained silent. Psychologists who followed him later admit that in the last quarter of 2021 he was depressed. And that was what he felt, as he would later relate. It was around this time that this Computer Engineering student left the town of Batalha, in Leiria, where he grew up, to study in the capital.
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Source: Observadora
