2014 Moscow school shooting
| 2014 Moscow school shooting | |
|---|---|
School No. 263, the site of the shooting, on 4 February | |
| Location | School No. 263 in Otradnoye District, Moscow, Russia |
| Coordinates | 55°51′25″N 37°36′51″E / 55.85694°N 37.61417°E |
| Date | 3 February 2014 11:40 a.m. – 1:05 p.m. (UTC+03:00) |
Attack type | Mass shooting, hostage taking |
| Weapon | .22 long rifle Browning SA-22 semi-automatic rifle |
| Deaths | 2 |
| Injured | 1 |
| Perpetrator | Sergei Gordeyev |
| Motive | |
On 3 February 2014, a school shooting occurred at School No. 263 in the Otradnoye District of Moscow, Russia. 15-year-old pupil Sergei Gordeyev, armed with a rifle, killed a geography teacher and held his classmates as hostages, before opening fire on first responders who arrived at the scene, killing an off-duty security officer and seriously wounding a patrolman. The teenager released the hostages and was detained following negotiations, in which the perpetrator's father participated.
Gordeyev's defence team asserted that he was insane when the trial for the shooting case began in September 2014 in Moscow's Butyrsky District Court, and the state prosecution concurred. On March 3, 2015, the court mandated that the teenager participate in required mental health treatment. Despite opposition from the victims' defence, the Moscow City Court declared in August 2015 that the decision was lawful. In November 2015, the Presidium of the Moscow City Court referred the matter to the Moscow District Military Court for reconsideration, and Gordeyev was again ruled insane on February 8, 2016.
The incident, which was the third fatal school shooting to occur in modern Russia, received wide resonance in Russian society and sparked heated discussions about the need to tighten security systems in educational institutions, as well as the negative impact of films, television shows and video games containing scenes of violence.