2020 Bolsheorlovskoe shooting

On the evening of October 12, 2020, 18-year-old Daniil Monakhov shot and killed four people, including his grandmother, and injured two others before committing suicide in the village of Bolsheorlovskoe in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia.

Daniil Monakhov openly praised the Columbine shooters and often joked about death. A classmate stated Monakhov appeared withdrawn and was not particularly academically successful. According to the friend it was apparent Monakhov was planning something. The friend stated:

"I even noticed it when I talked to him at school. He was planning a terrorist attack back in ninth grade. The teachers at school were told about it, and the FSB came running, but they did nothing, they just put him on a watch list."^[1]

Monakhov publicly searched for weapons and watched videos about school shootings. On October 12, 2020, while visiting his grandmother, an argument broke out between the two prompting him to shoot her and commit the shooting.

On the evening of October 12, 2020, 18 year old Daniil Monakhov shot his grandmother and his neighbor before going in the courtyards of the houses and shooting four other people, killing two of them. Monakhov then fled the scene. He was found dead by suicide from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in a forest near the village the next morning.^[2] His grandmother was rushed to the hospital but succumbed to her injuries.^[3]

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