A 14-year-old teenager killed a classmate and injured five others in a Russian school. As revealed by the investigators, the young woman he took his father’s shotgun to school, committed the crime and then committed suicide. The victim was a student who attended the same class.
After the tragic event, the Russian Investigative Committee communicated the details about the shooting and confirmed the deaths of two people, as well as the five wounded, who were taken to medical facilities. Regarding the health of the survivors, the regional governor of the city of asian countryAlexander Bogomaz, revealed that two were slightly injured and three others have medium serious injuries.
“The motives behind the crime and all the circumstances are being clarified”, stated the committee in charge of investigating serious crimes. “My sincere condolences to the parents of the girl murdered by the shooter. It is an irreplaceable loss. The families of the murdered girl and the injured will receive all the help they need,” Bogomaz declared.
The school, target of bombings
The shooting took place at school number 5 in Bryansk, a city near Ukraine that has occasionally been the target of bombings and drone attacks from kyiv.
According to the state agency Tass, the author’s father is being questioned by investigators. These “seek to know how the gun was stored at homehow the girl could have taken it, and if (the father) taught the young woman to shoot,” a security forces source told Tass.
Shootings have become more common in Russia
For some years now, the Shootings have been on the rise in Russia. In September last year, a gunman killed 15 people at a school in the western city of Izhevsk. In 2021, a 19-year-old young man murdered nine people at a school in the city of Kazan (southwest).
That same year, a teenager shot and killed six people at a university in the city of Perm, near the Ural Mountains. The deadliest shooting took place in October 2018, when a high school student killed 19 people and then committed suicide. at the Kerch high school, on the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea, annexed by Russia in 2014.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has expressed concern about the increase in shootings, considering it a phenomenon imported from the United States and a perverse effect of globalization. Even the authorities They tightened the legislation on gun ownership.
Source: Ambito
