| Yaroslavsky shooting | |
|---|---|
| Location | Yaroslavsky, Primorsky Krai, Russia |
| Date | 25 August 2002 01:00 (VLAT) |
Attack type | Mass murder, murder-suicide |
| Weapons | Saiga carbine |
| Deaths | 6 (including the perpetrator) |
| Injured | 10 |
| Perpetrator | Sergey Semidovskiy |
The Yaroslavsky shooting was a mass murder that occurred in Yaroslavsky, Primorsky Krai, Russia on 25 August 2002, when 40-year-old police captain Sergey Semidovskiy (Russian: Сергей Семидовский) killed five people and wounded ten others in and outside a bar with a Saiga carbine, after an argument with several customers. The drunk gunman then shot himself in the chest and was taken to a hospital in Khorol, where he tried again to commit suicide and eventually died of cardiac arrest on 27 August.[1][2][3][4]
As a consequence of the shooting Colonel Lebedev, head of the Khorolsky District department of internal affairs, as well as Lieutenant-Colonel Kurgeyev, head of the personnel and training department, and Lieutenant-Colonel Kotyshev, head of public security police, were dismissed, and disciplinary measures were taken against several other members of the local police.[5]
