The incident was earlier described as a "terrorist act", but Russia's investigative committee has now reclassified it as "mass murder".
Before today, if you had told people in Crimea there had been a mass school shooting, most would have thought you were talking about the United States. Now all that has changed.
The shooting spree in the Kerch Polytechnic has left the peninsula, annexed by Russia from Ukraine in 2014, in shock. But should it come as such a surprise?
In Russia this year there have been five major attacks in schools.
In Kerch, questions are already being asked: how did Vladislav Roslyakov manage to obtain a licence for a hunting weapon? And how was he able to launch such a deadly attack on his college?
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