Body Of Kerch Shooting Suspect Found In College With Gunshot Wound - Investigators

The body of a student who is suspected of having opened fire in a college in the Crimean city of Kerch was found with a gunshot wound in one of the school's rooms, the Russian Investigative Committee said Wednesday.

MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 17th October, 2018) The body of a student who is suspected of having opened fire in a college in the Crimean city of Kerch was found with a gunshot wound in one of the school's rooms, the Russian Investigative Committee said Wednesday.

"The identity of the young man who came to the college right before the incident, who, based on video footage, was holding a rifle, was established swiftly.

That was an 18-year old Vladislav Roslyakov, a fourth-year student of the college. His body with a gunshot wound was found in one of the rooms in the college," the committee's spokeswoman Svetlana Petrenko said.

According to the National Anti-Terrorism Committee, the search for potential organizers and perpetrators of the attack in the college is ongoing. The investigators are working to confirm whether Roslyakov, found to have shot himself, had been behind the crime, the committee said.