Russia sees first mass school shooting organised by 18-year-old student

2018/10/17

The young man, who arranged the mass shooting and the explosion in the Kerch college, could have an accomplice.  The shooter has been killed and identified. Eighteen people were killed and 50 injured in the tragedy that shocked Russia on October 17. The college director compared the tragedy to what happened in Beslan in 2004.

The shooter was identified as Vladislav Roslyakov; he was 18 years old, official representative of the Russian Investigative Committee, Svetlana Petrenko said. The young man was found dead on the second floor of the college. It is believed that he committed suicide. The attacker was captured on CCTV cameras inside the building. Roslyakov entered the Polytechnic College in 2015. On September 8, he received permission for a 12-caliber rifle. Several day ago, the young man purchased 150 cartridges for it.

Experts believe that the tragedy that the man had organised was not a spontaneous massacre, but a very well thought-out terrorist attack. Roslyakov may have had an accomplice who could detonate the bomb remotely, because the scale of the tragedy excludes the participation of only one attacker. It is believed that one of the students, supposedly an accomplice, had left a backpack in the canteen shortly before the explosion.

Most of the victims of the tragedy died of gunshot wounds, forensic experts said.

Vladislav Roslyakov entered the school at about 11:43 a.m., went up to the second floor and started shooting everyone he could see there. At 11:45 he ran out of cartridges and went downstairs, where he exploded his bomb.

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