Start date August 25, 2002 | Non-fatal injuries 10 Non-fatal injuries 10 | |
Total number of deaths 6 (including the perpetrator) Attack types Mass murder, Murder–suicide | ||
The Yaroslavsky shooting was a mass murder that occurred in Yaroslavsky, Primorsky Krai, Russia on August 25, 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 brought to a hospital in Khorol, where he tried again unsuccessfully to commit suicide and eventually died of cardiac arrest on August 27.
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.