The Interior Ministry officer wounded in an apartment on Anglisky Avenue turned out to be a 34-year-old senior police sergeant, Fontanka learned on April 26.
The man was born in Elista and has a higher education. He is married and has a daughter. Works at the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Admiralteysky district. In September 2022, he was appointed to the position of commander of a platoon section of a separate battalion of patrol service. Has no outstanding penalties.
On the morning of April 26, police along with emergency doctors arrived at an apartment on Anglisky Avenue at the request of a local resident that her 42-year-old son had deliberately poisoned himself with pills. Police officers helped bring the man to the wardrobe. At that moment, he suddenly grabbed a pistol from his jacket pocket and shot point-blank at the senior sergeant.
According to Fontanka, the policeman is now in the hospital in serious condition, he was operated on by neurosurgeons.
Earlier, the Investigative Committee showed footage from an apartment where a resident of the house shot at police. A criminal case has been opened regarding an attack on the life of a law enforcement officer (Article 317 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).
Fontanka showed what was happening near the house where the shooting took place and what the neighbors were saying.
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