Pedro Rosa da Conceição was a Brazilian

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who killed three people and wounded thirteen others in Rio das Pedras, Rio de Janeiro,

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on April 22, 1904, before being arrested.Homem-Fera! – Louco ou allucinado!...
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'' (April 24, 1904) (p. 5) He was then sent to a psychiatric hospital where he later killed three more people; his cellmate Joaquim Alves Junior and an unnamed guard who attempted to calm him down during a fight in 1911,Os loucos andam armados no hospicio ?
'' A Noite'' (October 4, 1911) (p. 3) and an unnamed inmate in 1910. He was also said to have murdered a family of twelve in Rio das Pedras,O crime do Pedro Rosa
'' A Noite'' (March 27, 1912) (p. 1) though this is unverified.

Rio das Pedras mass murder

Rosa was epileptic and worked at the Estrada de Ferro Central. On April 22, 1904 he armed himself with a bayonet and went to a locomotive in the Belém station alongside a partner. However, as the train was speeding, Rosa pushed the partner out of the train. When the train arrived at Rio das Pedras station, Rosa left.Uma morte que lembra uma das mais brutaes tragedias registradas pela nossa policia
''Correio da Manhã'' (February 26, 1919) He then walked to the Dona Clara station where his progenitor named Ambrosio Gomes lived. Intent on killing him, Rosa started beating Gomes injuring him. He then hit his stepmother Maria da Conceição. Rosa fled to Rio das Pedras and started wandering around injuring people past him. When he went back to Dona Clara station he stabbed a corporal named João Teixeira de Oliveira to death. On the road he wounded Seraphina Maria. Rosa then killed farmer Fructuoso Goulart do Amaral and fled. One of his victims, Felicidade Ignacia de Salles, 15, died on April 27. Rosa was arrested while he hid in the bushes the following day. He was sent to the Hospicio dos Alienados, where he lived until his death on February 25, 1919.

Victims

Killed were: *Jose Teixeira de Oliveira, 56, corporal *Fructuoso Goulart do Amaral, 44, farmer *Felicidade Ignacia de Salles, 15, died on April 27 Among those wounded were: *Augusto Barreto do Pinho, 56, wounded in the abdomen *Cahilde Luiza da Silva, 18 *Conceição Alves Moreira, 21 *Maria Florentina da Silva Nobrega *Euphrasia Maria da Conceição *Seraphina Maria

First homicide in the Hospicio Nacional dos Alienados and later double homicide

Newspaper A Noite reports that Rosa killed an unnamed inmate in the hospital in 1910. A year later on October 1, 1911, Rosa and Joaquim Alves Junior had a fight in the Hospicio Nacional dos Alienados. Rosa killed Joaquim with an unspecified weapon and also killed an unnamed guard who tried to calm him down.No Hospicio Nacional
''A Imprensa'' (October 4, 1911) (p. 5)

Murder of twelve people of a family

The newspaper A Noite, chronicling the crimes of Pedro Rosa, claimed that Rosa killed a family of twelve people, in an unspecified date and year.

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Rio das Pedras mass murder

Victims

First homicide in the Hospicio Nacional dos Alienados and later double homicide

Murder of twelve people of a family

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