rt.com: ‘I am like a God’: Kazan school shooter’s chilling message revealed as Putin orders gun control probe after eight killed in attack

A teenager has been detained by security forces in the Russian city of Kazan after a bloody attack at a local school left at least eight dead and more than a dozen wounded on the first day back after a 10-day national holiday.

Media in the country named the suspect as 19-year-old Ilnaz Galyaviev, identified as a former student at School No. 175, where the attack took place on Tuesday morning. He had subsequently gone on to study at the nearby TISBI management university, but a spokesperson for the college told Moscow’s RBC that he had been expelled after falling behind on his studies.

The source told reporters that Galyaviev had “shown himself to be a quiet and non-abrasive student during his studies. He was always neat and calm, and respectful of fellow students and teachers.” The teenager had apparently stopped attending classes in January and lost touch with tutors. “He did not appear to defend his industrial experience project or to sit three state exams, as a result of which he was expelled,” the press office added. more...