Russian police are questioning a student who allegedly killed two people and held hostage more than 20 others at a high school in Moscow on Monday morning.<br /><br />The shooting sent dozens of students scurrying out of the building while a police helicopter landed in a snow-covered field outside. <br /><br />Authorities say the suspect was armed with a rifle he obtained from his father, who helped police convince the teenager to surrender less than two hours after the siege began.<br /><br />The drama took place at School No. 263 on the northern outskirts of the Russian capital Moscow.<br /><br />Authorities say the incident could have been much worse as the 15-year-old gunman fired at least eleven rounds. <br /><br />The top spokesman for Russia’s Investigative Committee said he believed the teenager had suffered a nervous breakdown because there were no immediately apparent grounds to assume that the shooting was related to the boy’s academic performance.<br /><br />The student reportedly made his way into the school with a rifle by threatening a guard who immediately called the police. Investigators said the weapon belonged to the boy’s father.<br /><br />The mother of one child said her daughter managed to text her to warn her not to come to the school. “There’s a student shooting here” she told me. I replied telling her to call the police.”<br /><br />The gunman was a near straight-A student and it is believed detectives are working on the theory he might have been seeking revenge over a conflict with a teacher.
