| 2012 Moscow shooting | |
| Location: | Moscow, Russia |
| Date: | 7 November 2012 |
| Type: | Mass shooting |
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| Fatalities: | 6 |
| Injuries: | 1 |
| Perp: | Dmitry Vinogradov |
| Dfen: | Yury Marchenko |
| Convictions: | Six counts of murder |
The 2012 Moscow shooting was a mass shooting that occurred on 7 November 2012, in which six people were killed and one person injured by a lone gunman at a warehouse in northeast Moscow, Russia. The perpetrator, Dmitry Vinogradov, was sentenced to life imprisonment.
Five people were killed in a shooting spree in northeast Moscow in Russia.[1] [2] [3] [4] Hours before the shooting, Dmitry Vinogradov posted a manifesto on Vkontakte expressing his hatred towards mankind and comparing humans to cancer.[5] The gunman entered the warehouse on Chermanskaya Street at around 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday, 7 November 2012, dressed in camouflage gear and armed with two semiautomatic shotguns, a Vepr-12 and a Benelli M3 Super 90.[2] [6]
He shot dead three men and two women, injuring two others, a male and female, at their desks before giving himself up to security guards.[7] [8] One of the injured died during the night while in intensive care, having suffered from critical gunshot wounds.[9] Vinogradov's girlfriend was said to be safe.[10] The shooting ended when Vinogradov was subdued by a colleague, Yury Marchenko, after one of his guns ran out of ammunition, which saved lives, and he was then detained by Rigla's guards.[11] After he was arrested, he shouted "kill me!" at the guards.
Police arrested 29-year-old Dmitry Andreyevich Vinogradov, lawyer at the Rigla pharmaceutical company that owned the warehouse. He was reported to have gone on a five-day drinking binge[12] after being jilted by a co-worker.[2] [8] On 8 November, Vinogradav apologized in court and pleaded that he had "no other choice". He also said that he had wanted to kill himself after the massacre, but was prevented from doing so.[13]
An investigator said that Vinogradov had been planning the shooting spree since January.[14] He took lessons at a gun range to improve his shooting. Vinogradov stated he believed killing as many people as possible was the only way to make the world better. Vinogradov was captured on security cameras moments before the shooting began.[15]
Vinogradov stated his biggest regret was that he had failed to kill enough "genetic trash" (a term he used in his manifesto to refer to his targets). During pre-trial investigation, he confessed and apologized for his actions to the relatives of the victims.
It was determined he was sane, though he had an unbalanced mental state and had depression.[16] He had previously been prescribed antidepressants. Vinogradov was sentenced to life imprisonment on 9 September 2013 and was ordered to pay ($) to victims' families for damages. He also had to undergo compulsory therapy. In 2014, Vinogradov was placed in the White Swan maximum-security prison.[17]