Danil, 18, shot dead three men with a rifle



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Danil, 18, shot dead three men at a bus stop.

The teenager was inspired by the Columbine massacre and had spoken with his classmates about committing a mass murder, Russian media report.

He was found dead a few hundred yards from the crime scene Tuesday morning.

Danil Monachov left his home in Nizhny Novgorod, 400 km east of Moscow, by bus to his grandmother’s village of Bolshevorlovskoye on Monday.

The 18-year-old’s plan was to collect his father’s rifle and his own, which he received from his father, from his 63-year-old grandmother Galina Monachova, and then go to the boarding school where he studied and open fire on his classmates writes the daily Meduza.

Danil Monachov turned 18 years old.

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Danil Monachov turned 18 years old.

The grandmother did not want to let him go with the two weapons. They started arguing and ended up with Michail shooting his grandmother.

He started walking towards the bus stop, shot dead his grandmother’s neighbor on the way, and continued shooting when he arrived. When the shooting ended at 4 p.m. last Monday, he had shot and killed three men. Danil also opened fire on a passing bus, without injuring anyone.

A large police force was ordered to the scene and searched the 18-year-old with search dogs, drones and infrared cameras. After 15 hours, Danil was found dead Tuesday morning, a few hundred meters from the crime scene. He had committed suicide.

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A large police force searched for the killer overnight on Tuesday.

A classmate of Danil’s says the teenager was very interested in the 1999 Columbine High School massacre in the United States, and that he had already planned a mass shooting at the high school, which was discovered and arrested. Maria, another classmate, says she had also spoken in 2018 of carrying out a mass shooting, but that her plans had been silenced by the school. Also in 2019, Danil is said to have talked about carrying out a mass shooting and then committing suicide.

Danil Monachov often played computer games, and was particularly fond of Assassin’s Creed and Stalker, his friends say. It is said that the grandmother complained that she was spending too much time on computer games.

The three dead are Nikolai Seleznev, Sergei Napylov and Andrei Tichomirov. In addition to the grandmother, they shot two other people, a man and a woman.

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