Posted on 10/17/2018 7:06:40 AM PDT by EdnaMode
At least 17 people, mostly teenagers, were killed and 50 more wounded when a student went on a shooting spree in his high school in Russia-annexed Crimea on Wednesday, Russian authorities said.
Russian investigators identified 18-year-old Vladislav Roslyakov as the attacker, saying he fatally shot himself after the rampage in Kerch, a city in the east of Crimea, which Russia seized from Ukraine four years ago.
Reports had initially described the attack as involving explosives with possibly terrorist motives.
Russian investigators had initially opened a terrorism probe into the attack, but later changed it to murder. “A preliminary examination of the dead shows they suffered from gunshot wounds,” Russia’s investigative committee said in a statement. “The majority of them are teenagers,” it added.
But there were conflicting reports about what took place. Russia’s anti-terrorism committee initially said an explosive device was to blame for the attack on the vocational high school, attended by adolescents between the ages of 15 and 19. It said the bomb had been planted in the cafeteria.
President Vladimir Putin expressed his condolences to the families of victims. “It is clear that a crime took place. The motives and scenarios of this tragedy are being studied,” he said at a meeting with his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fatah al-Sissi in the Black Sea city of Sochi. He then asked for a moment’s silence.
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Nothing gets by those Russians!..............
Beslan v2.0
Aren’t their gun laws very strict?
A student - not a band of terrorists...
We are supposed to believe this DOESN’T happen in any country other than the U. S. Wonder how the MSM will cover it.
In Crimea? I rather doubt it.
When have strict gun laws ever stopped people from getting guns?
If only Russia had gun control.
ARs...bad, NRA...evil...Tramp's fault.
A US copycat killer is how it’ll be reported.
Was the killer taking antidepressants? Maybe the Russians can investigate that without the drug companies killing the results.
If this student is a Moslem (more specifically, a Chechen), then the method is the same, it is only the results that differ.
The NRA is in Crimea?
Aloha snackbar. I bet he’s a Muzzie.
His name was Vladislav Roslyakov. It’s not a Muslim name. Seemed to dress on purpose like Eric from Columbine with black pants, white T-shirt with something written on in black letters.
He was fascinated with Columbine. Killed himself in the school library.
Hog Call!
With Crimean accent.
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