2014 Moscow school shooting
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2014 Moscow school shooting | |
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shooting spree | |
Weapons | Browning SA-22, Unspecified shotgun |
Deaths | 2[1] |
Injured | 1 |
Perpetrator | Sergey Gordeyev |
Motive | Mental illness |
On February 3, 2014, 15-year-old high school student Sergey Gordeyev opened fire at School No. 263 in Otradnoye District, Moscow, Russia, killing a teacher. Gordeyev then took 29 students hostage, killed one police officer, and injured another. Later on, he surrendered to the authorities. It is the second reported school shooting in Russia's modern history.[a][2]
Shooting
At around 11:40 A.M., Gordeyev, concealing his weapons with a bag and fur coat,[3] went to his school armed with a small-caliber rifle and shotgun that belonged to his father,[4] a police colonel.[5] He threatened the security guard and went to his geography classroom, where he shot his teacher, 29-year-old Andrey Kirillov (Russian: Андрей Кириллов). After killing Kirillov, he then took the class of 29 students hostage.[6] Gordeyev then shot at responding police officers in the school, wounding Warrant Officer Sergei Bushuyev, 38, and Senior Sergeant Vladimir Krokhin, 29; Bushuyev later died at the scene, while Krokhin survived a gunshot wound to the shoulder.[1][4]
About an hour after the shooting first started, the Special Forces responded to the scene. Gordeyev initially called his mother before the Special Forces called in his father to negotiate with him. He initially spoke with Gordeyev on the phone for fifteen minutes before being brought into the school with a bulletproof vest to personally talk to him; thirty minutes afterward, Gordeyev released the hostages. At around 1:00 P.M., Gordeyev surrendered to authorities and was captured. A Russian report stated that a total of eleven shots were fired by Gordeyev during the shooting.[1][7]
Perpetrator
15-year-old Sergey Gordeyev (
A medical examination confirmed that Gordeyev had symptoms of
Reaction
Politician
Politician Aleksey Pushkov suggested exposure to American culture might be to blame.[1]
At a meeting with theater workers, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that such tragedies might be prevented by placing a greater emphasis on culture in children's upbringing, such as the theatrical arts.[11]
See also
Notes
- ^ The 2004 Beslan school siege is considered to be a terrorist attack
References
- ^ a b c d e f Ian Bateson and Maria Tsvetkova (February 3, 2014). "Moscow teen kills two in rare Russian school shooting". Reuters. Retrieved December 6, 2015.
- ^ Sukhov, Oleg and Matthew Bodner. "First-Ever School Shooting Prompts Debate on Security." The Moscow Times. February 3, 2014. Retrieved on March 22, 2014. "Police officers evacuating children from School No. 263 in the Otradnoye district in northeast Moscow on Monday after a shooting at the"
- ^ "Школьник Сергей прятал оружие под шубой". НТВ.
- ^ a b Loiko, By Sergei L. (February 3, 2014). "Student shoots, kills two at Moscow high school". Los Angeles Times.
- The New Times. Archived from the originalon February 21, 2014.
- ^ "Student gunman kills 2, briefly takes hostages at Russian school". Fox News. March 20, 2015.
- ^ a b Marie-Louise Gumuchian and Alla Eshchenko (February 3, 2014). "Two dead after gunman takes students hostage in Moscow school". CNN. Retrieved December 6, 2015.
- ^ a b "Student With Rifles Kills 2 in Standoff at Moscow School". The New York Times. February 4, 2014. Retrieved December 6, 2015.
- ^ "After deadly Moscow school shooting, Putin calls for emphasis on culture". Archived from the original on February 22, 2014.
- ^ "Устроившего стрельбу в школе старшеклассника отправили на принудительное лечение" (in Russian). Interfax. March 3, 2015. Retrieved August 25, 2016.
- ^ Evgeniy Moruz/Daria Buyanova, Metro World News in Moscow (October 11, 2014). "After deadly Moscow school shooting, Putin calls for emphasis on culture". Metro. Archived from the original on February 22, 2014. Retrieved December 6, 2015.