![]() In the only recent case, a lone gunman opened fire in a Moscow high school in 2014, killing a teacher and a police officer. ![]() School shootings are rare in Russia, and none previously have approached the scale of Wednesday’s blood bath. ![]() That represented the greatest loss of life in school violence in Russia since the Beslan terror attack of September 2004, in which 333 people died, many of them children, and 531 were hospitalized. Roslyakov’s body was found with a gunshot wound in a room at the college, Russia’s Investigative Committee said in a statement, bringing the overall toll to 20 dead. Roslyakov said he was a loner who had expressed an interest in the 1999 school shooting in Columbine, Colo., where 12 students and a teacher were killed. ![]() There were no immediate reports of a possible motive, though a friend of Mr. Roslyakov, 18, was a fourth-year student at the college. But officials quickly reclassified it as murder after learning that the gunman, Vladislav I. The assault at Kerch Polytechnic College was initially investigated as a possible terrorist attack. The gunman, who also detonated an explosive device, was found dead, apparently a suicide. MOSCOW - A gunman attacked his fellow students at a technical college on the Crimean peninsula on Wednesday, killing at least 19 people and wounding dozens of others, the Russian authorities said.
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