This is the heartbreaking moment a 14-year-old student forms a gun shape with his hands as he strangely wanders around his classroom, killing nine people in a horror shootout.
In the shocking video, the alleged Turkish school shooter can be seen holding his hands as if they were guns under his chin.
Reportedly filmed by a student in a classroom on Wednesday, he walks around in a circle for some time in a strangely cool pose.
Later the same day, the student, identified by state broadcaster TRT as Isa Aras Mersinli, fatally shot eight children and a 55-year-old teacher at a middle school in southern Turkey.
The attack, which came just a day after 16 students were injured in a shooting at an isolated school in Türkiye’s southeast, shocked the nation.
The funeral of the children, aged 10 to 11, and their teacher will be held on Thursday in the city of Kahramanmaraş.
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It is understood the perpetrator hid his father’s guns in a backpack before carrying out the terrifying “indiscriminate” attack on two separate classrooms.
Mersinli’s father – a former police inspector – has been taken into custody by the police.
An even more shocking revelation has emerged about Mercinelli as authorities say his WhatsApp profile image contained a reference to an American mass murderer.
“preliminary findings Investigation The revelations revealed that the perpetrator used an image on his WhatsApp profile referencing Elliot Rodger, who carried out attacks in the United States in 2014, police said in a statement.
Police have also seized digital media from the criminal’s home and his father’s vehicle, which is currently being analyzed.
He said, “Based on preliminary findings, no link to terrorism has been established. This appears to be an isolated act.”
Rodgers, 22, killed six people on the campus of the University of California, Santa Barbara before taking his own life.
The mass murderer explained in a video released before his crime that the attack was “punishment” for the women who had rejected him.
On Thursday, Turkish police ordered the arrest of 83 people accused of posting controversial material about two school shootings on social media.
“Arrest orders have been issued for 83 persons found involved in posts and activities praising crime and criminals and negatively impacting public order and legal action has been taken against them,” the police said in a statement.
On Wednesday, horrifying footage of children screaming and running away from the school building in the opposite direction of the road went viral.
Children can also be seen jumping from the second floor of the school into the arms of fellow students below.
The sound of about 15 bullets can be heard in the one and a half minute video.
Looking from outside the school, it is seen that hundreds of people are coming from the school gate with ambulance and police and staff and students are running towards safe place.
Schools in Kahramanmaraş will be closed on Thursday and Friday.
On Wednesday, Interior Minister Mustafa Siftasi said authorities believed the attack was “personal”.
Mercinelli reportedly died during the ordeal, although it is unclear whether this was intentional or not.
It comes exactly 24 hours later A former student armed with a pump-action shotgun started firing randomly In a different school in Türkiye.
At least 16 people were injured in the attack that took place at a high school in the south-east of the country.
Alarming CCTV footage shows the shooter heading towards the school doors as some of his terrified classmates recognize the danger and begin to run away.
The teen then enters the building and looks down at his rifle before beginning his rampage.
Terrified students can be seen running for their lives and barricading themselves in classrooms as the gunman moves towards the hall.
School shootings were rare in Türkiye until this week.
In May 2024, a former student murdered the principal of a private high school in Istanbul with a shotgun, five months after being expelled.
Turkey has strict gun laws that require licensing, registration, mental and criminal background checks, and severe penalties for illegal possession.
Dozens of members of the main teachers unions gathered outside the Education Ministry in Ankara on Wednesday evening and called for a two-day strike across Türkiye.
They held banners that read, “We will not hand over our schools to violence”.
