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Russian online media outlet Mash has published footage showing the exact moment when 19-year-old shooter Ilnaz Galyaviev entered Kazan's High School No. 175, shortly before he opened fire on students early on Tuesday morning.

In the video, posted online after the assailant was captured, Galyaviev can be seen walking up to the school and pointing a weapon at someone just outside the building.

© SputnikPolice and paramedics work at the scene of a shooting at Gymnasium No. 175 in Kazan, Russia's Republic of Tatarstan, 11.05.2021.

Another clip, also published by Mash, shows the killer walking down a Kazan street, carrying a firearm in his hand. Filmed at 9:24am local time, Galyaviev is seen wearing a mask and waving his gun at a passer-by.

According to local authorities, Galyaviev went on to kill one teacher and seven students, sending many more to hospital. Reports from news agency RIA Novosti suggest that two of the pupils had died after jumping out of the window to escape gunfire.

Prior to the terrorist attack, Galyaviev had announced his intention to kill on social media, calling himself a "god."

Kazan is located around 700 kilometers east of Moscow and is the capital of Tatarstan, a Muslim-majority republic. With over 1.2 million residents, Kazan is often referred to as the 'third capital of Russia.'

Following the shooting, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered National Guard head Viktor Zolotov to begin an emergency review of gun laws and impose new restrictions on the types of weapons that can be owned by civilians.
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Media in the country named the suspect as 19-year-old Ilnaz Galyaviev, identified as a former student at School No. 175, where the attack took place on Tuesday morning. He had subsequently gone on to study at the nearby TISBI management university, but a spokesperson for the college told Moscow's RBC that he had been expelled after falling behind on his studies.

The source told reporters that Galyaviev had "shown himself to be a quiet and non-abrasive student during his studies. He was always neat and calm, and respectful of fellow students and teachers." The teenager had apparently stopped attending classes in January and lost touch with tutors. "He did not appear to defend his industrial experience project or to sit three state exams, as a result of which he was expelled," the press office added.

Last week, Galyaviev is reported to have set up a channel on the Telegram service, with messages purporting to be from "God." In a series of comments written last Thursday, the account announced that "I am like a God."

The account went on to say that the population of the world were his "slaves," and should kill each other before ultimately killing themselves. He added that there should be no living creatures left in the world, and that life was a "mistake of the universe."

Prior to the shooting, he is reported to have written that he would kill a large number of people before ending his own life. A photograph posted to the channel showed a man resembling the one detained by police posing for a selfie while wearing what appears to be a combat vest and a face covering, emblazoned with the word "Bog," or "God" in Russian.

The Baza news site quotes Galyaviev's father as saying that his son was "not religious, and he never expressed or showed any bad thoughts or ideas."

Rustam Minnikhanov, the president of the majority Muslim Russian region of Tatarstan, where Kazan is located, said that Galyaviev was a registered firearm owner.

Speaking to journalists later on Tuesday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Russian President Vladimir Putin had given an order to begin an emergency review of gun control legislation. "The fact is that sometimes types of small arms are registered as hunting weapons, which in some countries are defined as assault rifles and so on," he said. "This, too, will be urgently worked out by the Russian Guard."

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Tom Cruise is reportedly returning his Golden Globes, as its organizer, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), grapples with the fallout from an ongoing diversity controversy.

The "Mission Impossible" star "delivered back to the HFPA the three Golden Globe trophies he has won" on Monday, according to Deadline.

Cruise, 58, picked up Globes for his roles in "Jerry Maguire," "Born on the Fourth of July" and "Magnolia."

A representative for the performer didn't immediately return ITK's request for comment.

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