Student holds 20 hostage, kills 2 in Moscow school
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Moscow school shooting: Student held after killing two
An armed student who entered a school in Moscow and shot dead two adults before taking more than 20 teenagers hostage has been arrested. Police said the student had killed one officer and a teacher. Another policeman was shot.
The gunman was a pupil at School No 263 on the northern outskirts of Moscow. Russian investigators named him as Sergei Gordeyev, and said he was an excellent student who appeared to have had an "emotional breakdown".
He was armed with two rifles legally owned by his father.
Vladimir Markin, a spokesman for Russia's main investigative agency, said a school security guard had been unable to stop Gordeyev from entering the school when he arrived carrying the weapons. But the guard did manage to hit an alarm.
Gordeyev shot dead a teacher before locking more than 20 10th grade students - aged about 15 - in a classroom.
He then fired at least 11 shots at police officers who had responded to the alarm, wounding one and killing another.
The hostages were freed after the student's father went in to the school.
He was best student on the school.