{"id":4479,"date":"2021-09-20T16:23:32","date_gmt":"2021-09-20T16:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mediateka.online\/learnrussian\/i-saw-students-jumping-from-the-windows-meduza-talks-to-eyewitnesses-from-the-deadly-university-shooting-in-perm.html"},"modified":"2021-09-20T16:23:32","modified_gmt":"2021-09-20T16:23:37","slug":"i-saw-students-jumping-from-the-windows-meduza-talks-to-eyewitnesses-from-the-deadly-university-shooting-in-perm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mediateka.online\/learnrussian\/i-saw-students-jumping-from-the-windows-meduza-talks-to-eyewitnesses-from-the-deadly-university-shooting-in-perm.html","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I saw students jumping from the windows\u2019 Meduza talks to eyewitnesses from the deadly university shooting in Perm"},"content":{"rendered":"
Students at Perm State University after the attack on September 20, 2021Anastasia Yakovleva \/ AP \/ Scanpix \/ LETA<\/figure>\n

On the morning of September 20, Timur Bekmansurov opened fire at a university campus in the Russian city of Perm. The 18-year-old shooter killed six people and injured at least 28 others. He was wounded by police and taken into custody. Meduza interviewed eyewitnesses who were at Perm State University at the time of the attack. In their own words, here\u2019s what they saw.<\/p>\n

Alexander Stabrovsky<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Projects Department manager, former director of Perm State University\u2019s Museum of History<\/em><\/p>\n

I was in my office on the first floor of the eighth building (where the shooter carried out the attack<\/em>) with my colleague Vitaly, [when] his car alarm went off. He left the office and I went to the window. I saw a guy with a gun walking up the alley. He put the weapon in front of him. I didn\u2019t attach any importance to this: the students are probably rehearsing something, I thought. He didn\u2019t seem anxious at all. He walked steadily, like in a parade \u2014 and then, bang!<\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t see that the guy was firing shots. [After the bang] I looked back at the door and Vitaly ran into my office. He shut the door and there were a few more bangs. It didn’t sound like gunfire, but I thought there was a terrorist attack at the university.<\/p>\n

It turns out the guy went into the [main] building and opened fire there. He shot our colleague; he\u2019s barely in his forties, now he\u2019s in intensive care. He was just walking down the hallway [going] about his business and they ran into each other.<\/p>\n