ICYMI: Mom of 2 Saves the Day, Shoots Gunman Near School

Footage of the shooting has gone viral again

Police tape in a stock photo. (Carl Ballou/Shutterstock)

Warning: Graphic footage ahead.

Video footage showing an off-duty police officer in Brazil shooting and killing a gunman outside a school has gone viral again.

Katia Sastre, who is now a politician, was praised by local officials for her bravery during the viral incident. The New York Post’s footage of the incident has been shared en masse over the past several days.

The 42-year-old was captured on camera gunning down Elivelton Neves Moreira, 21, outside a school in Sao Paulo. The suspect is seen armed with a handgun and was approaching a crowd of children and their parents, it was reported.

But Sastre pulled out a pistol and opened fire several times, sidestepped as he tried to aim at her, and then placed her body weight on his back. She is also seen kicking the gun away.

Moreira later died in the hospital, The Sun reported.

“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, Fox News reported. “I just thought about defending the moms, the children, my own life and my daughter’s.”

Sastre said she is a mother.

She was honored by local official, Marcio Franca, at the station. “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,” Franca wrote at the time.

“She pushed the children out of the way and approached the thief. She shoots, the boy shoots, the boy tries to shoot at her leg,” Brazilian public security secretary Maggie Alves also said, Fox reported. “She immobilizes the boy and calls the [emergency services]. It was a perfect procedure from a technical point of view.”

After the suspect died, she lamented it.

“I’m not happy about the death, which no one wants. But I am happy for having saved good people,” she told AFP.