On November 3, 1999, a mass shooting occurred inside a movie theater room at the Morumbi shopping mall in São Paulo, Brazil.

[not verified in body] In November 1999, Mateus da Costa Meira (born April 4, 1975) lived alone in an apartment in São Paulo and studied medicine at the Faculty of Medical Sciences of São Paulo's Holy House (FCMSCSP), a well-regarded institution; he was in his sixth and last year, only 15 days from graduating.

[5] Prior to the massacre, he already owned a pistol, but chose to obtain a more powerful weapon: a MAC-11 submachine gun, which he acquired illegally from Marcos Paulo Almeida dos Santos for R$ 5,000.

Meira said he employed Santos as a driver since he did not know how to drive the mechanic car his insurance company gave him following a crash that destroyed his automatic Chrysler Neon.

[1] Meira told the police that he had been planning the attack for seven years and that he chose Fight Club because the main character suffers from schizophrenia.

Back in the theater room, he stood in front of the screen and shot to the ceiling, but that did not scare viewers since they believed it was an effect from the movie.

[5] On May 8, 2009, Meira tried to kill a cellmate, the 68-year-old Spaniard Francisco Vidal Lopes, with scissors, apparently because the television's volume was too loud.