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School shooting kills two: A teacher and a policeman were killed by a high school student this week in what Russians called the country’s first-ever “American-style” school shooting. Sergei Gordeyev, 15, was armed with a small-caliber rifle and a shotgun when he entered his school in the capital and killed a 37-year-old teacher. He then shot two policemen as they arrived on the scene, killing one and wounding the other, and held a class of 29 students hostage until his father persuaded him to surrender. Investigators described Gordeyev as a straight-A student who had no known disputes with the murdered teacher. School shootings are exceedingly rare in Russia. “I can barely remember something like this ever happening,” said politician Valery Ryazansky. “We’re not America.”

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