After the shooting, the cadet and a friend fled the Kamyshin Higher Military Construction School with two automatic rifles and ammunition, police for the Volgograd region told Interfax.
The motive was unclear for shootings, which occurred at 4 a.m. Sunday following a changing of the guards, according to Itar-Tass. The 18-year-old cadet, identified as Sergei Lepnev, suddenly shot and killed the chief of the guards, a 32-year-old captain, then opened fire on his fellow students.
After a 12-hour search, police found and detained Lepnev and his companion, Sergei Orefyev, who were hiding in a house in Kamyshin, Itar-Tass reported.
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