Yaroslavsky shooting

The Yaroslavsky shooting was a mass murder that occurred in Yaroslavsky, Primorsky Krai, Russia on 25 August 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 taken to a hospital in Khorol, where he tried again to commit suicide and eventually died of cardiac arrest on 27 August.^[1][2][3][4]

Yaroslavsky shooting
Location	Yaroslavsky, Primorsky Krai, Russia
Date	25 August 2002 01:00 (VLAT)
Attack type	Mass murder, murder-suicide
Weapons	Saiga carbine
Deaths	6 (including the perpetrator)
Injured	10
Perpetrator	Sergey Semidovskiy

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.^[5]

Victims

• Alexander Kuznetsov (Александр Кузнецов), 33, died on 27 August^[6]