A 10th-grade student from “Idrak” Lyceum, located in Baku's Binagadi district, shot their teacher.
It is reported that the student who committed the incident used a hunting rifle belonging to their father. The hunting weapon was confiscated from the student detained by police officers. The teacher, Shahla Kamilova, born in 1997, has been hospitalized. An investigation into the incident is underway.
Psychologist Shamil Fataliyev commented on the incident in a statement to Modern.az.
He believes that a psychological interview with the student is necessary to accurately assess the incident:
“The child's family situation, how this child's relationships with classmates and friends were, whether there was any pressure on them, etc. Of course, large-scale factors such as social networks and computer games should be analyzed as causes. However, if we specifically put forward this traditional type of cause, the question may arise: why do millions of children not take analogous steps under the influence of such factors?"
The psychologist believes that the incident should be approached situationally:
"The analysis should start from the child's home and family. Why did the father keep the weapon in an accessible place? This is an implicit suggestion to the child, through p language, that the weapon is a decisive factor.
Secondly, the child's sphere of interest should be investigated. What films did they watch? The computer games they played, their phone usage, where they spent their time, etc., should be thoroughly investigated.
Thirdly, the relationship with the teacher is a subject we should particularly focus on. In any case, this could have been a foreseeable, probable process".
The psychologist noted that it is not possible to say that the teenager committed the incident in a state of affect.
" Actions in a state of affect occur within a few seconds or minutes. Here, however, we know that he took the weapon and went to the lyceum. The social scenario indicates that the teenager is a sociopath, not a psychopath driven by affect".
