MOSCOW, February 5 (RAPSI) – A prosecutor has asked the Moscow Regional Military Court to send school student Sergey Gordeev, who took his classmates hostage and shot two people in February 2014, for compulsory medical treatment, Igor Trunov, the lawyer for victims, told RAPSI on Friday.
The victims opposed the prosecutor’s position and demanded real prison term for Gordeev.
On February 8, the defendant will make a final speech and then the court will deliver a sentence.
Earlier, the court questioned the killed teacher Andrei Kirillov’s widow and mother and a policeman who was injured by Gordeev.
The incident took place on February 3, 2014, when Sergey Gordeev, 15, brought a rifle and a carbine to school. He killed a police officer and a teacher, injured one more person and took hostages.
The Investigative Committee found that the student fired at least 11 times from the small caliber rifle before he was arrested.
The teenager partially admitted his guilt. The psychiatric evaluation showed that he is mentally fit. Last summer, the Moscow City Court confirmed the original court’s ruling that the student undergo compulsory medical treatment.
In late September, relatives of victims filed a cassational appeal with the Presidium of the Moscow City Court. They requested that the original ruling of the Butyrsky District Court be overturned as well as the ruling of the Moscow City Court in the appeal. They wanted the case to be returned to the court of original jurisdiction for a review starting from initial proceedings. On November 13, the Moscow City Court Presidium revoked a ruling ordering Gordeev to undergo psychiatric treatment.