Teacher killed in Kazan school shooting tried to shield child from attacker, source says
According to the information on the schoolâs website, she has been teaching at this school for four years, in 2018, she was second in the Teacher of the Year contest
MOSCOW, May 11. /TASS/. English teacher Elvira Ignatyeva, who was killed in Kazan’s school shooting, died trying to save her students, a source in the law enforcement told TASS. According to the preliminary data, Ignatyeva tried to save one of the students, eyewitnesses to the tragedy say. She pushed the child away from the shooter and stood in his path, shielding the child. The wounds sustained by Ignatyeva were deadly, the agency’s spokesman said.
Galyaviev said that he saw himself as a god about two months ago.
“In summer, a monster began to wake up in me, really. I started hating everyone.
I always hated everyone and started hating even more,” he said, according to
Baza.
The young man also said that having thought of himself a god, he told his mother about that. At the same time, when communicating with investigators, he noted that he had no parents.
“My mom was the first to know. Iэь on formal terms with her. She s not my mother. I have no parents, I hate you all. I don t have a mother, I have abandoned everyone. The woman who gave birth to me was not a mother. I have neither mom nor dad, I never called them that,” concluded Galyaviev.
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Updated May 11, 2021
Police investigators work at the scene of a shooting at School No. 175 in Kazan, the capital of Russia’s republic of Tatarstan, on May 11, 2021. (Photo by Handout / Press service of the President of Republic of Tatarstan / AFP)
At least seven people were killed Tuesday, most of them children, in a shooting at a high school in the central Russian city of Kazan, officials and news agency reports said.
Officials said at least one gunman had been involved and detained, though there were unconfirmed reports of two attackers including one who had been killed.
A police spokesman said officers were dispatched to School No. 175 in Kazan, the capital of the Russian republic of Tatarstan, after reports of shots being fired.
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