Gunman kills 3 people in southern Brazil during hours-long shootout

A 45-year-old man in southern Brazil barricaded himself in a house and killed his father, brother and a police officer in an hours-long shootout before he himself was fatally shot, authorities said Wednesday. Nine other people were injured.

The incident in Novo Hamburgo, part of the metro area of Rio Grande do Sul state’s capital Porto Alegre, started late Tuesday when the man’s father called the police to report his son’s aggressive behavior, authorities said at a news conference in Porto Alegre.

When police arrived, the son started firing, hitting officers in the process. The confrontation lasted almost 10 hours, dragging into the next morning, state military police said in a statement issued later in the day.

The injured included six military police officers, a municipal guard and the man’s mother and sister-in-law, the police statement said.

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