A Russian teen has been sentenced to existence imprisonment for sporting out a dangerous capturing at Perm State University.
Six other people had been killed and dozens of others had been injured within the assault within the Urals ultimate yr.
Timur Bekmansourov was once convicted of homicide and tried homicide “for reasons related to hooliganism,” Russia’s Investigative Committee stated on Wednesday.
The 19-year-old had pleaded responsible to the costs however had requested the courtroom to not impose the utmost existence sentence.
Bekmansourov was once a scholar on the Perm University Law Faculty and had a allow to hold guns.
On 20 September 2021, he arrived on the college campus with a smoothbore rifle and opened hearth on scholars ahead of being arrested through police.
“Bekmansurov also refused to comply with the police officer’s lawful demands to drop his weapon and fired a shotgun in his direction,” the committee stated.
Other other people had been injured after leaping from the college’s home windows to flee the assault. The reason for the assault stays unclear.
Fatal shootings have change into extra commonplace in Russia in recent times, prompting a tightening of gun rules.
In September, 17 other people had been killed and 24 others injured in a college capturing within the Russian area of Udmurtia.
Last yr, 9 other people, together with seven scholars, had been killed in a faculty capturing in Kazan, whilst in 2018, a young person killed 19 other people at his college within the Crimean town of Kerch ahead of committing suicide.
