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RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug. 15 (UPI) -- Brazilian police have arrested three suspects in the killing of a U.S. anthropology professor in the Brazilian Amazon, investigators said Monday.
The men are being questioned about their involvement in the shooting death over the weekend of James Petersen, a professor from the University of Vermont.
One has already confessed to being the triggerman in the shooting while the other two were the supposed perpetrators of the robbery, police said. One of the suspects is reportedly 16 years old.
Petersen, 51, was in the Amazon studying ancient tribes in the region. He was killed when the suspects entered a restaurant in the small western town of Iranduba where he and his fellow researchers were eating and shot and killed him.
The professor's death was the second high-profile murder of an American in Brazil this year. In February, nun and human rights activist Dorothy Stang was killed by hired gunmen.
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