*An off-duty female police officer is being hailed a hero after she shot an armed thug who attempted to rob a security guard in front of a kindergarten school in the central region of Suzano, a city in São Paulo, Brazil.
According to reports, Katia da Silva Sastre, 42, and her daughters had attended a Mother’s Day luncheon at their kindergarten on Saturday, May 12 when Elivelton Neves Moreira, 21, approached the school security guard with his gun drawn.
As Moreira pointed his gun at the older man, Corporal Sastre produced a weapon and fired 2 shots into Moreira’s chest and one in his leg.
Watch it go down via the clip above.
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Surveillance video captured the moment Corporal Sastre pulls her weapon out of her tote bag, chamber a round and fire within 3 seconds.
The impact from the shots knocked Moreira out of his flip-flops and on to the ground screaming in pain. He pleaded with her not to shoot him again (the video has no sound).
Corporal Sastre stopped shooting only because her gun jammed.
According to LiveLeak.com, the gunman was transported to a hospital where he died a day later.
“I didn’t know if he was going to shoot the kids or the mothers or the security guard at the school door,” Corporal Sastre after the incident.
Sastre, whose husband is a police lieutenant, was honored in a ceremony by Sao Paulo Governor Marcio Franca on Sunday.
