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A Notebook of the Student Who Murdered the Teacher in Calama Shows that He Plotted His Action for Four Months

Summary by El Pais
The attacker of the Instituto Obispo Silva Lezaeta, in the mining city of Calama, 1,500 kilometers north of Santiago, would have been inspired by the massacres of schools in the United States and would have been considering their action for four months. This is what the Chilean police consider after searching and finding the notebook at the home of Hernán Meneses Leal — 18 years old and therefore older — pointed out as responsible for the death …

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The attacker of the Instituto Obispo Silva Lezaeta, in the mining city of Calama, 1,500 kilometers north of Santiago, would have been inspired by the massacres of schools in the United States and would have been considering their action for four months. This is what the Chilean police consider after searching and finding the notebook at the home of Hernán Meneses Leal — 18 years old and therefore older — pointed out as responsible for the death …

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The premeditation that followed the attack at the Instituto Obispo Silva Lezaeta de Calama will be part of the aggravating factors that will be invoked this Tuesday by the chief prosecutor of Calama, Eduardo Peña, when he formalizes Hernán Meneses Leal (18), a student of that establishment who on Friday attacked two inspectors and several students in an unprecedented event in our country. María Victoria Reyes, inspector of the lyceum, was killed…

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On Tuesday, March 31, the formalization of Hernán Meneses Laal, an 18-year-old student accused of perpetrating the armed attack on the Instituto Obispo Silva Lezaeta de Calama, will take place. For this purpose, the PDI develops a series of inquiries to find the largest amount of evidence against the accused. It is compiled by the detectives, according to La Tercera, who reports a clearly planned crime, since the accused had been structuring the…

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The Calama Guarantee Court will formally charge the 18-year-old student accused of murdering 59-year-old inspector María Victoria Reyes in a violent attack last Friday inside the Obispo Silva Lezaeta Institute. The hearing comes after the court extended his detention over the weekend to gather more evidence in the case. According to information compiled by various national media outlets, the young man will be formally charged with murder and fou…

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What was supposed to be a day of détente for the traditional "jeans day" at the Instituto Obispo Silva Lezaeta, became the scene of a tragedy that the civilian police did not hesitate to describe as a "massacre". Investigations originally revealed by La Tercera expose that the attack by Hernán Meneses Leal (18) [...] The Young Killer entry of Calama had written the plan of the massacre in a notebook was first published in Desenfoque.cl.

The experts continue after the deadly attack recorded last Friday at the Instituto Obispo Silva Lezaeta de Calama, where an 18-year-old student caused the death of an inspector, in addition to wounding another teacher and three students. According to Emol, officials of the Homicide Brigade of Antofagasta arrived to the house of Hernán Meneses Leal, the perpetrator of the attack. In this notebook the detailed plan that the subject had in mind was…

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La Hora broke the news in on Monday, March 30, 2026.
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