Valparaíso school shootings

1999 CE.

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The Valparaíso school shootings were a spree killing that occurred on 17 December 1999, occurring at the B-29 Valparaíso high school and the Eduardo de la Barra Valparaíso high school, both located in Valparaíso, capital of the Valparaíso Region in central Chile. The perpetrator, recently dismissed physics professor Iván Arancibia Navarro, 47 years old at the time, killed three people in total, including his own three-year-old daughter, before attempting suicide with a self-inflicted gunshot to the head. After being rushed to a nearby hospital, he recovered and was eventually declared not guilty by reason of insanity, as he was suffering from a delusional psychosis. Overcome from depression caused by his daughter's death, Arancibia eventually committed suicide in his parents' home in 2011. The incident has been recognized as the first and deadliest school shooting in Chilean history.

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