Nazari was a 48-year-old resident of Sanaa, Yemen, and a veteran of the Soviet–Afghan War, where he had fought alongside the Mujahideen against the Soviet Union during their invasion of Afghanistan.

Eyewitness (1) Male, said he first saw the headmistress lying on the floor bloodied up, (pointing to the exact area), "and another staff member dead at the other side, then as we tried attending to the dead, gunmen starting shooting again, so we ran and we hid from him and then as we came out again and we saw him opening fire on the other side and then the soldiers showed up, he starting shooting at them and was finally shot and captured by them.

[3][4] After officially being declared sane, Nazari (whose name was also reported as being Hassan Ali al-Baadani or Muhammad Ahmad al-Naziri) was taken to trial where he was found guilty for the six murders, and sentenced to death the next day.

On 5 April 1997, Nazari was executed by firing squad with five shots in the chest, in an empty lot[clarification needed] located between the two schools where he had committed the shootings.

[5][6][7] The daughter who the school administrator allegedly raped committed suicide five years later, while Nazari's other four children reportedly all died in an accident in 2006.