A teenager stabbed a 10-year-old pupil to death and took a selfie with his body after he couldn’t find the maths teacher he planned to kill.
Timofey K., 15, asked students their nationality and told them to keep calm before he chased a child down and stabbed him three times at an elite Moscow school.
The ninth-grader (Year 10 in the UK) recorded himself holding a knife to the class during the rampage at his own Uspenskaya Secondary School in the elite Gorki-2 area of the Russian capital.
He wore a helmet and bulletproof vest emblazoned with neo-Nazi slogans and ‘No Lives Matter’ as he searched for his substitute maths teacher who had regularly scolded him for poor performance, according to Russian news outlets.
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Timofey K., who also pepper-sprayed a security guard and attacked a staff member, pleaded guilty, TASS news agency reports.
Armed SWAT officers stormed the school and arrested the teen.
Police say he wrote an 11-page manifesto prior to the attack and distributed it to his classmates.
In it, he described his hatred of society, dividing people by nationality and religion.
Timofey K., reportedly got past metal detectors at the school in the morning and changed clothes in a restroom, according to news channel Mash.
The outlet reports he spent eight minutes trying to find his maths teacher – Maria Dmitrievna – who he claimed was not ethnically Russian.
After failing to track her down, another teacher urged him to ‘calm down’ to which he reportedly replied ‘I haven’t done anything yet’.
A security guard, Dmitry Pavlov, then approached the boy and attempted to disarm him, but he was pepper-sprayed in the face.
The teenager – who was reportedly quiet and had been skipping classes in recent months – was asking students their nationalities during the rampage.
He then chased a 10-year-old boy through the school, shouting ‘Come here, you black-a*s c**k-sucker.’
The victim, reportedly the son of the school’s cleaning lady, died from his stab wounds.
This was all caught on camera as he recorded the attack on his phone and reportedly took a selfie with the body.
Other students barricaded themselves into classrooms to stop the knife-wielding teen from reaching them.
More than 100 children also took refuge in a nearby sports complex.
After armed police raided the school and apprehended Timofey K., they reportedly found an object resembling an IED inside the building.
The attacker had posted on social media before the rampage, showing him wearing a helmet and doing a Nazi salute.
The far-right or nihilist group promotes terrorism, violence, and human extinction and overlaps with neo-Nazism and satanic extremism.
In one picture, he can be seen holding a piece of paper with Tuesday’s date and containing the word ‘Sygaown’, which stands for ‘Stop Your Genocide Against Our White Nations’.
The helmet also had the number 2083 on it, which references the Norwegian far-right terrorist Anders Behring Breivik’s manifesto, 2083: A European Declaration of Independence.
Other messaging also referred to the 2022 massacre in the S.A.S. and the New Zealand mass murderer, Brenton Tarrant.
The knife attack comes a day after a teacher was allegedly knifed in the back and twice in the chest by a student.
The educator, who is fighting for her life, was targeted by a 15-year-old pupil in St Petersburg.
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