MOSCOW, May 5 (RAPSI) – The Supreme Court of Russia has upheld a lower court’s ruling on compulsory medical treatment for school student Sergey Gordeev, who took his classmates hostage and shot two people in February 2014, RAPSI learnt in the courtroom on Thursday.

The court has dismissed an appeal filed by lawyer Igor Trunov, who was representing victims and insisted that the school shooter was sane. The court has also refused to return the weapon the student used to his father.

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 had fired at least 11 rounds from a small caliber rifle before he was arrested.

Gordeev has partially admitted his guilt while psychiatric evaluation showed that he is mentally fit. Last summer, the Moscow City Court confirmed the original court’s ruling that the student should undergo a compulsory medical treatment.

In late September, relatives of victims filed a cassation appeal with the Presidium of the Moscow City Court. In their appeal, they requested that the original ruling of the Moscow Butyrsky District Court be overturned, as well as the ruling of the Moscow City Court. On November 13, the Moscow City Court Presidium revoked a ruling ordering Gordeev to undergo psychiatric treatment.

On February 8, 2016, the Moscow Regional Military Court ordered that the case be closed because of absence of elements of crime in the act, the defendant be discharged from liability and sent for forced medical treatment.

On March 30, 2016 Moscow’s Butyrsky District Court ordered the parents of Gordeev to pay over 2 million rubles ($30,000) in compensation to the victims in the case.