Bio

Daniil Mikhailovich Monakhov was born on June 6, 2002. He lived in a complete family and had a sister who was seven years younger than him.

He had a congenital heart defect. At school he was described as unsociable and uncommunicative. He was a poor student. A former classmate said people sometimes made fun of him, but they did not mock him or insult him. Neighbors and classmates said he came from a good family and looked fine, but he was not like the others.

Since February 2019 he was on his school’s internal register after he expressed an intention to repeat Columbine. His homeroom teacher and the deputy principal noticed posts on his social media that showed an interest in school attacks. He also told classmates he dreamed of buying weapons and explosives.

In September 2020 he entered the Nizhny Novgorod Vocational Boarding School of Social Services. His specialty was "Master of Digital Information Processing." When he reached adulthood, his father bought him a shotgun because he showed an interest in hunting. On September 17, 2020, Monakhov registered that gun in his name. The second gun he used belonged to his father. The day before the events in the village, Daniil went to Bolsheorlovskoye to go hunting in the forest.

Murder Story

The Bolsheorlovskoye massacre took place in the village of Bolsheorlovskoye in the Nizhny Novgorod region. Four people were killed and two were wounded in the attack. The perpetrator, 18-year-old Daniil Mikhailovich Monakhov, committed suicide.

Daniil Mikhailovich Monakhov was born on June 6, 2002. He was 18 at the time of the incident. He lived in a complete family and had a sister seven years younger than him. He had been noted as unsociable at school. He had a congenital heart defect.

On the day of the attack, Daniil visited his grandmother. When she went to see him off, he came out toward her and fired. His 63-year-old grandmother was shot and later died a month after the attack. He shot Sergei Napylov in the back; Napylov died at the scene. Daniil then fired at the windows of a nearby house, but no one inside was injured. He wounded Valentina Zhogonova at a bus stop. He opened fire on a scheduled bus with people parked there, but the bus driver accelerated in time and no one on the bus was injured. Daniil walked down the street, shooting in different directions. He wounded Viktor Artyukhin and killed Nikolai Seleznev and Andrei Tikhomirov. Shots were heard near the dachas at about 04:50. At 07:12 Rosgvardia officers found Daniil dead about 200 meters from the crime scene.

It is believed Daniil had planned to attack his educational institution, but his grandmother stopped that plan.

Gleb Nikitin, Governor of the Nizhny Novgorod Region, ordered financial assistance for the immediate families of those killed. Each family of a person killed was to receive 200,000 rubles. Those injured in the shooting were to receive 100,000 rubles each. In the village, people set up improvised memorials with flowers at the places where people were killed.