2014 Moscow school shooting

2014 Moscow school shooting
LocationOtradnoye District, Moscow, Russia
Coordinates55°51′25″N 37°36′51″E / 55.85694°N 37.61417°E / 55.85694; 37.61417Coordinates: 55°51′25″N 37°36′51″E / 55.85694°N 37.61417°E / 55.85694; 37.61417
DateFebruary 3, 2014 (2014-02-03)
c. 11:40 a.m. – c. 1:00 p.m. (UTC+04:00)
TargetSchool No. 263
Attack type
School shooting, hostage taking, shooting spree
WeaponsBrowning SA-22, Unspecified shotgun
Deaths2
Injured1
PerpetratorSergey Gordeyev
MotiveMental illness

On February 3, 2014, 15-year-old high school student Sergey Gordeyev (Russian: Сергей Гордеев; also spelled Sergei Gordeev) 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 first reported school shooting in Russia's modern history.

Shooting

At around 11:40 A.M., Gordeyev, concealing his weapons with a bag and fur coat, went to his school armed with a small-caliber rifle and shotgun that belonged to his father, a police colonel. He threatened the security guard and went to his geography classroom, where he shot his teacher, 29-year-old Andrey Kirillov (Russian: Андрей Кириллов), first in the stomach, then fatally shot him in the head upon seeing he was still alive.[citation needed] After killing Kirillov, he then took the class of 29 students hostage. 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.

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.

Victims

Two people were killed in the shooting, while a third was wounded. The victims were:[citation needed]

  • Andrey Kirillov, 29 (teacher, killed)
  • Warrant Officer Sergey Bushuyev, 38 (policeman, killed)
  • Senior Sergeant Vladimir Krokhin, 29 (policeman, wounded)

Perpetrator

15-year-old Sergey Gordeyev (born October 4, 1998) was identified as the perpetrator of the shooting. He attended School No. 263, had a very good reputation, which was due to an excellent school record. He was described as a "model student" who sets up "an example for the whole school".[citation needed]

Two possible motives were given. According to the first, which was later rejected, Gordeyev opened fire from revenge against the geography teacher who was trying to interfere with his planned graduation with honors – and Kirillov was fixed upon as the teacher Gordeyev had conflicts with. Another version suggested that Gordeyev was suffering from an emotional disorder, yet he had had no previous apparent conflicts with either teachers or fellow pupils, although some described have him as "strange". Sergei Gordeev believed in the theory of solipsism, he considered all his life a dream, people were an illusion, at first he wanted to come to school, tell his classmates about his thoughts and shoot himself, in his words, he shot the geography teacher because "no one believed that he would shoot."

A medical examination confirmed that Gordeyev has symptoms of mental disorder (paranoid schizophrenia). The court sentenced him to involuntary treatment in a psychiatric hospital. Later, the court also obliged the parents of Gordeyev to pay a certain sum of money in support of the son of the killed teacher.[citation needed]

Reaction

Politician Irina Yarovaya mentioned that the event might be linked to violent video games and recommended tighter gun control.

Politician Aleksey Pushkov suggested exposure to American culture might be to blame.

Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin later stated that schools in Moscow have been set to be reviewed for security.[citation needed]

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.

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