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Perm State University shooting | |
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Location | Perm State University, Perm, Perm Krai, Russia |
Coordinates | 58°00′27″N56°11′12″E / 58.0075°N 56.1867°E |
Date | 20 September 2021 11:27 — ~11:35 |
Target | University students and staff, bystanders |
Attack type | Mass shooting, school shooting, mass murder |
Weapons |
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Deaths | 6 |
Injured | 48 (24 by gunshots, including the perpetrator) [1] |
Perpetrator | Timur Bekmansurov [2] [3] |
Motive | Misanthropy |
Convictions |
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Sentence | Life imprisonment |
On 20 September 2021, a mass shooting occurred at Perm State University, in the city of Perm, Perm Krai, Russia. Six people were killed and 47 others were injured. [5] [6] The attacker, identified as 18-year-old Timur Bekmansurov, was arrested after being wounded by police. [6] [7]
The shooting occurred roughly four months after another school shooting in Kazan, Russia, in which nine people were killed. In the aftermath of that shooting, the legal age to buy a gun in Russia was increased from 18 to 21, but the law was not yet in effect at the time of the Perm shooting. [7] Authorities had blamed previous school shootings on foreign influence from news of similar incidents in the United States and elsewhere. [8]
While the university has 12,000 students enrolled, only 3,000 individuals were on campus at the time of the shooting. [9] The shooter was tracked by security cameras walking towards the university around 11:30 am while carrying a shotgun. [10] He was able to overpower and injure the security guard before the guard was able to activate a panic button. [11] A student at the college said that he heard gunshots while travelling in the elevator and that he saw what he believed to be the gunman shooting at two female students who were trying to escape. [12] During massacre the shooter carried 131 rounds (two bandoliers with twenty six rounds 12/76 and forty nine rounds 12/70 and pouch with forty nine 12/70 rounds, also seven 12/70 rounds that he loaded in his shotgun). [13] In total he fired thirty seven shots. [14]
Students and teachers inside the university, who were involved in lessons at the time, used furniture such as chairs to barricade the internal doors closed. Meanwhile, video footage from outside the university showed students using classroom windows to escape, [12] and the gunman walking outside the building. [7] Police arrived at the scene and challenged the gunman, with a gunfight ensuing. [12] The suspect was wounded while resisting arrest and taken to a local hospital to be treated. [11] As of 5 October 2021, the perpetrator had regained consciousness after requiring a leg amputation for the injuries sustained during the gunfight with the police. [15]
Six people were killed during the shooting. They were identified as five women and one man, aged between 18 and 66 years old: [8]
47 others were injured (including 23 who were wounded by gunshots), with all except the gunman in stable condition by 22 September. [16]
Russian police named 18-year-old law student Timur Bekmansurov (Russian: Тимур Бекмансуров) (born 8 March 2003) as the gunman. [12] Prior to the shooting, Bekmansurov had posted an image of himself with a shotgun, helmet, and ammunition to his VK account. He captioned the photo with the statement: "I've thought about this for a long time, it's been years and I realized the time has come to do what I dreamt of." [10] In the post, he also said he was "overflowing with hate" and clarified, "What happened was not a terrorist attack (at least from a legal point of view). I was not a member of an extremist organization, I was nonreligious and apolitical. Nobody knew what I was going to do, I carried out all these actions myself." [17]
A spokesperson for the Russian National Guard told reporters that Bekmansurov legally owned a shotgun for hunting as well. [18]
A criminal case against the attacker was initiated under Part 2 of Art. 105 (murder of two or more persons, committed in a generally dangerous way, with a rowdy motive), Part 3, Art. 30 (attempted crime), Art. 317 (encroachment on the life of a law enforcement officer) and under Part 2 of Art. 167 (damage to another's property in a generally dangerous way, with a rowdy motive) of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. Relatives of the dead and those injured in the shooting filed suits against the defendant for moral damages in the total amount of 24.91 million rubles.
According to the results of a psychiatric examination, Bekmansurov was diagnosed with schizoid personality disorder, but he was declared sane.
In November 2022, the state prosecution demanded that Bekmansurov be sentenced to life imprisonment. Bekmansurov admitted his guilt in full in court, expressed remorse, and asked the court not to sentence him to life imprisonment. But the court refused, and on 28 December 2022, sentenced Timur Bekmansurov to life imprisonment. [19]
Students, faculty, and residents of Perm used the exterior fence of the university to create a makeshift memorial with carnations, candles, photos, and other items. [8]
Authorities have blamed foreign influence for previous school shootings, and the attack has brought forward additional questions and potential legal changes. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov announced on 20 September that legislative action had already been taken to further restrict gun purchases. [8]
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