MOSCOW, July 13 (RAPSI, Diana Gutsul) – On July 28, the Moscow City Court will hear an appeal filed against the sentence given to a Moscow high school student who shot two people in February 2014, a lawyer representing the victims, Igor Trunov, told RAPSI on Monday.

On February 3, Sergey Gordeev, 15, made his way into his school with a rifle by threatening a guard who immediately called the police. Gordeev barged into a classroom where a geography teacher was giving a lesson and fatally shot him, and then held about 20 students hostage, according to investigators.

He also shot a police officer who arrived on the scene and wounded another, according to investigators. Investigators reported that the suspect fired no fewer than 11 shots with two carbines that were legally registered to his father.
Gordeev pleaded partially guilty. A psychiatric evaluation found him insane.

In March 2015, Moscow’s Butyrsky District Court found Gordeev guilty of the murder of two people and intent to commit murder. Underage criminals face a maximum sentence of ten years in a juvenile correctional facility for these crimes. However, doctors found Gordeev to be unfit to stand trial, and the court sentenced him to compulsory treatment in a psychiatric hospital.

The victims argue that the psychiatric examination conducted during investigation cannot be accepted as reliable evidence.

“We are appealing the Butyrsky District Court’s ruling and are seeking a reversal and a remand of the case,” reads a post on the website of the law firm Trunov, Aivar and Partners.