On the evening of 12 October 2020, a mass shooting took place in , a village of Bor, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia. After killing his grandmother at their home, 18-year-old Daniil Monakhov shot and killed three people and wounded two others in the neighborhood before fleeing the scene. He was found dead the following day after committing suicide by gunshot.

Background

Daniil Monakhov (; 6 June 2002 — 12 or 13 October 2020) openly praised the Columbine shooters and often joked about death. A classmate stated Monakhov appeared withdrawn and was not particularly academically successful. According to the friend it was apparent Monakhov was planning something. The friend stated: "I even noticed it when I talked to him at school. He was planning a terrorist attack back in ninth grade. The teachers at school were told about it, and the FSB came running, but they did nothing, they just put him on a watch list." Monakhov obtained the shotgun used in the shooting legally, with suspicions that he bought the medical certificate to do so from a private clinic. Rosgvardia had inspected his home on 17 August and attested to no violations of the firearms storage code. He publicly searched for weapons and watched videos about school shootings.

Shooting Monakhov's first victim was his 63-year-old grandmother Galina Monakhov, whom he shot point blank after she tried to stop Monakhov with two guns and 40 cartridges, mortally wounding her. Monakhov then shot Sergei Napylov in the back as he went out to check what the noise was, killing him instantly. Monakhov then began firing at the windows of the residential building; no one in the building was injured. The attacker then walked towards a bus stop, where he wounded Valentina Zhogonova, and opened fire on a bus with people parked there; no one on the bus was injured.

Monakhov continued down the street past houses, shooting in all directions, until he entered the courtyard, where he wounded Viktor Artyukhin and killed both Nikolai Seleznev and Andrei Tikhomirov. The shooter later fled into the woods near the dachas, where shots were heard at approximately 04:50.

A manhunt for Monakhov was started, initially going by witness statements of a man in his 40s carrying a single shotgun before his actual identity was confirmed. At 07:12 the attacker was found dead 200 meters from the crime scene by Rosgvardia soldiers.

All three of the initially wounded, two women and a man, including Monakhov's grandmother, were first treated at Bor Central Hospital before being brought to N.A. Semashko Regional Hospital for surgery. The women had life-threatening and critical injuries from multiple gunshots to the abdomen, remaining in intensive care, while the man was treated for a gunshot to the legs. Galina Monakhov died a month later on 12 November.

It is believed that Daniil allegedly had initially planned to commit a school shooting, but his grandmother thwarted the plan.

See also List of mass shootings in Russia

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