Mateus da Costa Meira

Mateus da Costa Meira (b. São Paulo, April 4, 1975), better known as The movies Shooter or "The Mall Shooter", was a former medicine student. The nickname comes from the fact of having fired a portable machine gun against people in a movie hall at Morumbi Mall, in São Paulo.
The Brazil rampage was allegedly inspired by Duke Nukem 3Ds opening level "Hollywood Holocaust" (Episode 1, Mission 1), where a firefight with aliens takes place inside a cinema. It was also speculated at the time that he would have been influenced by the film Fight Club, which was displayed at the criminal attack.
According to eyewitnesses of action, the night of November 3, 1999, inside cinema hall 5 of the Morumbi Shopping, on the south side of São Paulo, Mateus, would have raised from his seat, going into the bathroom - which would have given a shot in the mirror. Mateus has used an Cobray m-11. He stood at the front of the audience, emptying the gun, reloading, and continuing to fire. These shootings resulted in 3 dead, 4 wounded and 15 more in panic. Tragedy which surrendered under the name Mateus holds up to this day.
Arrested at the crime scene, he has just been sentenced to more than 120 years in prison under closed. His lawyers argued that Mateus was semi-fault, or had partial awareness of their actions. After several appeals court, Mateus was sentenced to 30 years, maximum sentence prescribed by the Brazilian justice. The defense lawyers tried in vain to plead mental insanity of his client.
He was aged 24 at the time.

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