MOSCOW, September 12 (RAPSI, Yevgeniya Sokolova) – The Moscow City Court has upheld a lower court’s ruling ordering parents of school student Sergey Gordeev, who took his classmates hostage and shot two people in February 2014, to pay 2.5 million rubles (about $39,000) to the family of the teen’s victim, geography teacher Andrei Kirillov, RAPSI reported from the courtroom on Monday.

Earlier the Butyrsky District Court of Moscow awarded the victim’s family compensation. They have to pay 936,000 rubles ($14,600) in material compensation as well as 700,000 ($11,000) rubles to mother of the victim and equal sum to his widow. Additionally, Gordeev’s parents are to pay 34,000 rubles ($530) to the victim’s son each month, until he reaches the age of 18. Gordeev’s parents appealed the ruling asking to overturn the ruling.

The incident took place on February 3, 2014, when Sergey Gordeev, 15, brought a rifle and a carbine to school. He killed a police officer and a teacher, injured one more person and took hostages.

The Investigative Committee found that the student had fired at least 11 rounds from a small caliber rifle before he was arrested.

Initially Gordeev has partially admitted his guilt while psychiatric evaluation showed that he is mentally fit, but last summer, the Moscow City Court confirmed the original court’s ruling that the student should undergo a compulsory medical treatment.

In late September, relatives of victims filed a cassation appeal with the Presidium of the Moscow City Court. In their appeal, they requested that the original ruling of the Moscow Butyrsky District Court be overturned, as well as the ruling of the Moscow City Court. On November 13, the Moscow City Court Presidium revoked a ruling ordering Gordeev to undergo psychiatric treatment.

On February 8, 2016, the Moscow Regional Military Court ordered that the case be closed because of absence of elements of crime in the act, the defendant be discharged from liability and sent for forced medical treatment.