2012 Moscow shooting

On the morning of 7 November 2012, a mass shooting occurred at a warehouse on Chermanskaya Street in northeast Moscow, Russia. Hours before the attack, the perpetrator, Dmitry Vinogradov, posted a manifesto on the social network Vkontakte expressing hatred toward humanity and comparing people to cancer.

At around 10:00 a.m., Vinogradov, dressed in camouflage gear and armed with two semiautomatic shotguns — a Vepr-12 and a Benelli M3 Super 90 — entered the warehouse belonging to the Rigla pharmaceutical company, where he worked as a lawyer. He shot three men and two women dead and injured two others, a man and a woman, at their desks. One of the injured later died overnight in intensive care from critical gunshot wounds, bringing the death toll to six. Vinogradov's girlfriend, a co-worker, was reported safe.

The shooting ended when Vinogradov was subdued by a colleague, Yury Marchenko, after one of his weapons ran out of ammunition. He was then detained by Rigla's security guards and, after being arrested, reportedly shouted "kill me!" at them.

Police identified the perpetrator as 29-year-old Dmitry Andreyevich Vinogradov, born 20 August 1983, a lawyer employed by Rigla, the company that owned the warehouse. He was reported to have gone on a five-day drinking binge after being jilted by a co-worker prior to the attack. On 8 November, Vinogradov apologized in court, stating he had "no other choice," and said he had wanted to kill himself after the shooting but was prevented from doing so.

An investigator said Vinogradov had been planning the attack since January 2012 and had taken lessons at a gun range to improve his shooting. He stated he believed killing as many people as possible was the only way to make the world better, and described his biggest regret as failing to kill enough people he referred to in his manifesto as "genetic trash." During the pre-trial investigation, he confessed and apologized to victims' relatives.

Evaluators determined Vinogradov was sane at the time of the offense, though he had an unbalanced mental state and depression, for which he had previously been prescribed antidepressants. On 9 September 2013, he was sentenced to life imprisonment and ordered to pay 300,000 rubles (approximately $9,422.96) in damages to victims' families, along with a requirement to undergo compulsory therapy. In 2014, he was placed in the White Swan maximum-security prison.