10-Year-Old Killed in Russia School Stabbing

A 15-year old student killed a 10-year-old on Tuesday in a knife attack at a school in the Moscow area.

The attacker also stabbed a security guard and a staff member, according to Russia’s Investigative Committee. The attacker pleaded guilty, Olga Vradiy, a representative for the committee was quoted as saying by Russia’s state news agency TASS.

The agency said it suspected a student it identified as Timofey F. and that he was a student at the school, Uspenskaya Comprehensive, in the village of Gorki-2 in Moscow’s Odintsovo region.

Multiple Telegram channels close to the country’s intelligence agencies reported that the attacker came to the school Tuesday wearing a helmet emblazoned with neo-Nazi and other racist slogans. They included a quote from Dylann Roof, who killed nine African American churchgoers in 2015 in South Carolina and intended to incite a race war.

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