The student who opened fire inside a college in the Crimean city of Kerch acted alone in the mass shooting, which took him almost two years to prepare, a police source told Sputnik on Saturday.
KERCH (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 20th October, 2018) The student who opened fire inside a college in the Crimean city of Kerch acted alone in the mass shooting, which took him almost two years to prepare, a police source told Sputnik on Saturday.
The fourth-year student, identified as Vladislav Roslyakov, killed 21 people and wounded over 50 others in a bomb and gun attack that started inside the canteen at Kerch Polytechnic.
"The gunman acted alone, he prepared for this alone. There are no runaway shooters... He was preparing for this since January 2017," the source with a local law enforcement agency said.
The shooting was initially treated as a terrorist attack but was later reclassified as a mass murder. The gunman killed himself inside the college library. More than 40 victims remain in hospital, three of them in critical condition.
