An off-duty Brazilian military police officer and mother foiled the robbery attempt of an armed gunman when she pulled her own pistol from her purse and fatally shot him outside a private school in Sao Paolo.
During the incident which occurred on Mother's Day, Katia da Silva Sastre, 42, was conversing with a group of women and children outside of the school when 21-year-old Elivelton Neves Moreira approached, drew a gun, and attempted to rob them.
In surveillance footage of the attack, Sastre can be seen retrieving her firearm and shooting Moreira three times in the chest before he tumbles backward into the street. Sastre approaches, kicks away his pistol, and restrains him until backup could arrive.
“I didn't know if he was going to shoot the kids or the mothers or the security guard at the school door,” she said. “I just thought about defending the moms, the children, my own life and my daughter's.”
“I went earlier to the 4th BAEP in the east of Sao Paulo to honor a very special mother: Corporal Katia Sastre. Her courage and precision saved mothers and children, yesterday at the door of a school,” wrote Sao Paulo Governor Marcio Franca on Twitter after recognizing Sastre for bravery.
See the dramatic footage up top.
Source: foxnews.com
