A woman was shot to death while taking a Spanish exam inside a classroom in Costa Rica, according to grisly video and local reports.
She was reportedly shot and killed in front of her 16-year-old son, who was also inside the classroom taking the test.
Translated from Spanish via Google Translate:
“J. T. Rankin was taking an exam with her 16-year-old son, when she was shot to death inside a classroom at the Integrated Adult Education Center, this Tuesday in Limón.
This was stated by her son in an interview with Tele noticias, where he assured that he heard several shots, but never imagined the tragedy.
It was her brother who called him at about 6:15 p.m. and told her that they had killed her mother, in the same classroom where they were taking a Spanish exam.
“He will never forget it. I know that he is suffering even if he does not show it (…) just as he happened to my mother, he could happen to anyone,” he said before demanding justice.
According to the boy, “I didn’t believe what happened. Just in the morning we were talking, laughing,” said the young man with a broken voice.
In the same interview, the young boy said that his mother wanted to get ahead and that she, she was always a hard-working woman, that she even worked on a cruise ship. In fact, the exam she was taking was to graduate as a bachelor.
According to the information provided by the Judicial Investigation Agency, the case would be a settling of accounts.
Rankin was shot in the head, chest, and buttocks by two subjects who entered the classroom with their faces covered.
The 42-year-old woman was pronounced deceased just after 8:00pm Tuesday by the Ministry of Public Security. The case is under investigation.”