Teenager takes a guard's gun and shoots him inside a bank
The images from the bank's security cameras captured the moment in which the teenager shot the security guard.
A security guard at the Banco do Brasil branch who was shot by a teenager who took his gun from him, on the afternoon of this Thursday, the 2nd.
The 16-year-old boy was accompanied by two cousins when he entered the bank branch. The minor was immobilized and the security guard had to be taken to the Central Emergency Service with a gunshot wound to the neck.
At the end of the morning of this Friday the 3rd, after being hospitalized for a day at the Bauru Base Hospital, the injured guard was discharged.
The images from the bank's security cameras captured the moment in which the teenager shot the security guard at the bank branch in Bauru, Sao Paulo.
After shooting the guard, the young man left the gun on the ground and hid behind his cousin, who stood between him and the other guards who were pointing at him.
The teen's mother told police she believes her son may have suffered a psychotic break due to an undiagnosed and untreated psychiatric disorder medically.
The teenager was detained by military police and, in the company of his cousins, transferred to the Bauru Civil Police Station, from where he was sent to the CASA Foundation, which provides assistance to young people between 12 and 21 years old with measures of deprivation of liberty.