“The killer Akhtyamov Ruslan Rushanovich, born in 1996, a resident of Veshkaym, is registered as mentally ill,” Moskalkova wrote on Telegram.
She also clarified that the victim of the shooting is in the hospital with a wound to her right shoulder, her condition is stable.
Earlier, the authorities of the Ulyanovsk region confirmed the fact of shooting in one of the kindergartens in the region.
According to State Duma deputy Sergei Morozov, as a result of shooting in a kindergarten in the Ulyanovsk region, a teacher and two children were killed, and another woman was injured.
The Russian Investigative Committee opened a case under the murder article.