1992 Tatarstan shooting

Lyalya Forseyeva received an award for her courage and on 26 April 2012, the twentieth anniversary of the shooting, she gave an interview to the program Capital: Results of the Week.

Dmitri Kovalev was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment for his complicity in the crimes. He was released from prison early in 2005. His subsequent fate is unknown.

The perpetrator, Andrey Shpagonov, shot and killed 9 people and seriously injured another during a robbery attempting to steal firearms from his former workplace with the State Courier Service. Shpagonov and his accomplice, Dmitri Kovalev, were arrested and sentenced to death and 15-years imprisonment, respectively. On 11 November 1995, Shpagonov was executed by shooting.

He was a good shooter, but he had no friends. Andrey worked as a huntsman, but he was sacked. After the attack, he ran away and dumped all the stolen firearms, but he was captured, sentenced to death and executed on 11 November 1995. His accomplice was jailed for 15 years.

At the trial a few months later, Andrey Shpagonov was sentenced to death, filing petitions for clemency but they were all rejected. Shpagonov had understood that he could face execution, attempting to pass himself off as insane and began talking about the voices in his mind, ordering him to kill, but forensic examination found him sane and able to take responsibility for their actions. On 11 November 1995, Shpagonov was executed by shooting in Kazan.

The 1992 Tatarstan shooting was a mass murder which occurred in Tatarstan, Russia, on 26 April 1992.

At 10 p.m. Shpagonov on 26 April 1992, went to his former workplace at the State Courier Service in Kazan, armed with a knife and a Makarov pistol. After sneaking into the second floor of the building through a door which had not closed properly, he gunned down one man (named Lepuhin Лепухин) and stabbed him numerous times. Shpagonov went into another room where he shot and stabbed sleeping Shmelev (Шмелев), then moving to the first floor and killing Komardin, who was also sleeping, before looting the men's government-issued firearms. All three of the men had been drinking vodka, and were former colleagues of Shpagonov. When another employee Nogaytsev rang the doorbell requesting entry to the building, Shpagonov let him in then shot him in the back of the head. After that he went to an administrative office and shot at four women, killing three and wounding one, Lyalya Forseyeva (Ляля Форсеева). One of the women managed to exit the building trying to flee, but Shpagonov caught and killed her. Forseyeva, who was badly injured but survived, moved to a room where she locked herself inside, called the police, and wrote Shpagonov's name on the floor using her blood in case he killed her. Shpagonov heard Forseyeva's footsteps and searched the building, but after finding nothing he returned to the administrative office where he discovered one of the women he shot was still alive. Assuming the footsteps had been the woman's, he shot her in the head before packing 67 firearms and more than 700 rounds of ammunition that were in the building. As Shpagonov was about to leave the doorbell rang when another employee, Sadriev (Садыев), and his driver had recently arrived from Moscow. The two entered the building to discover a dead body in the lobby, where Shpagonov shot and killed them before dousing the building with gasoline and setting it on fire.

Police received information that Shpagonov had visited his cousin, washed, dressed and left, then he called his former vocational school teacher, so she got in touch with his family and through them gave him warm clothes, as he was about to flee to Siberia. The police found out that the call was made from Agryz, and in the morning of 4 May 1992, Shpagonov was arrested, immediately confessing to the crime and later showing police the place in the river where he threw his gun.

In December 1991, due his dismissals and failed business ventures, Shpagonov formulated a plan to steal weapons that had been held at his former workplace with the State Courier Service, enlisting the help of his cousin, Dmitri Kovalev, as a driver. Despite refusing at first because he feared the death penalty in the event they were caught, Kovalev later accepted as he was heavily in debt and Shpagonov promised to make sure there were no witnesses. Shpagonov then spent four months preparing for the robbery.

Andrey Shpagonov (Андрей Шпагонов) was born on 13 September 1969, in Kazan, Tatarstan, Soviet Union. He was released from compulsory military service in the Soviet Army due to illness, instead attending a vocational school from which he graduated. Shpagonov worked at a factory before joining the Tatarstan branch of the State Courier Service. At work he established himself as a loner, where he was known to be withdrawn and uncommunicative. Despite this, Shpagonov was a talented marksman, and regularly received promotions in the service. According to his former colleagues, Shpagonov became involved in petty theft. At the beginning of 1991, Shpagonov was dismissed from the State Courier Service for non-compliance in his position, and after the dismissal worked as a security guard in a private furniture store in Kazan, but was soon dismissed for an unknown reasons. Shpagonov also tried to organize his own trading business, but failed.