[Regnum] A police officer was wounded during a shootout on Narodnaya Street in St. Petersburg, Telegram channel “112” reported on May 25.
According to him, an unknown person barricaded himself in the apartment and opened fire on the police from there. Now they are trying to detain him.
As reported by IA Regnum, on May 14 in St. Petersburg, a motorist opened fire near the Pionerskaya metro station. As a result of the incident, a man was injured. The cause of the shooting was a traffic dispute. The attacker fled in a black foreign car with Moscow license plates.
On April 26, in St. Petersburg, an armed man was eliminated after wounding a policeman who arrived at one of the apartments on Anglisky Avenue after calling an ambulance. A woman contacted doctors and reported that her 42-year-old son had taken 100 tablets prescribed for epilepsy. In the presence of doctors, the man began to behave inappropriately. The police arrived and helped the doctors and persuaded him to get dressed. Suddenly he grabbed a pistol from his jacket pocket and shot point-blank at one of the law enforcement officers. The second officer returned fire and the man suffered a non-life-threatening bullet wound.
On April 14 in St. Petersburg, a shot was fired at the delivery point of one of the marketplaces. A man who was reprimanded for having a dog with him opened fire from an aerosol pistol towards an employee at the distribution point. No one was injured as a result of the incident. The shooter turned out to be a previously convicted 42-year-old resident of St. Petersburg. He was detained, taken to the police department, and the weapon was confiscated.
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Footage taken after the storming of the shooter’s apartment in St. Petersburg has been published
On May 25, the Russian Guard published a video on its Telegram channel made after the storming of an apartment in St. Petersburg, from which a man opened fire on police officers.
“In St. Petersburg, SOBR officers of the Russian Guard neutralized a citizen who had previously opened fire on law enforcement officers and the street, and then barricaded himself in an apartment on Narodnaya Street,” the report says.
The Russian National Guard clarified that they negotiated with the man for several hours, but this did not yield any results. The special forces soldiers decided to storm the apartment where the man had barricaded himself.
As reported by IA Regnum, the shooting on Narodnaya Street in St. Petersburg became known on the afternoon of May 25. It was reported that a police officer was wounded during the shootout. However, later the Ministry of Internal Affairs denied this information.
During the assault, the man who had barricaded himself in the apartment was eliminated. According to the publication “78.ru”, the man is 59 years old, he was born in Chechnya, and previously served a sentence for murder under aggravating circumstances.
Earlier, a man had a conflict with a salesman in a fishing store. Presumably, the reason was a remark about smoking. The man began to threaten the seller, and then returned to the store with a traumatic pistol and shot the seller in the head. The wounded man was hospitalized. After that, law enforcement officers arrived at the shooter’s house; he refused to go out to them and opened fire from the balcony.
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A native of Chechnya was killed during an apartment storm in St. Petersburg
During the storming of an apartment in St. Petersburg, security forces killed a native of Chechnya, who opened fire on police officers. The head of the Ministry of Press of Chechnya said that Lechi Alkhanov, who shot at the security forces, was mentally ill.
A man who shot at police officers in St. Petersburg and barricaded himself in an apartment was killed, the Russian National Guard reported today. “Several hours of negotiations did not produce results, after which the special forces of the Russian Guard stormed the apartment. During the arrest, the suspect offered armed resistance. SOBR officers, in accordance with the law, used service weapons and special means,” the Russian Guard for the Northwestern Federal District reported in its Telegram channel.
The name of the shooter was announced by the head of the Ministry of Press of Chechnya, Akhmed Dudayev. “This is 59-year-old Lechi Alkhanov, who, according to preliminary information, has repeatedly undergone treatment in various medical institutions for mentally ill people. A person with mental disabilities, who, among other things, has other serious illnesses,” he said today in his Telegram channel.He stressed that “there is no talk of terrorism or extremism here.” “Those who persistently focus on his nationality are provocateurs trying to stir up an interethnic conflict in our country,” Dudayev said.
The head of the representative office of the head of Chechnya in the Northwestern Federal District, Alash Ozdamirov, said that Lechi Alkhanov is known to many Chechens of St. Petersburg and that, in addition to mental illnesses, Alkhanov had cancer and a number of others that “tormented him very much.” Alkhanov’s act could be associated with a progressive illness, Ozdamirov suggested in a video that Akhmed Dudayev posted today on his Telegram channel.
The details of what happened before the storming of the apartment were reported by the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region. “On May 25, the police received a report of a conflict with shooting, which was allegedly carried out from a traumatic weapon on Narodnaya Street, 27. A squad of police arrived at the scene, but the attacker managed to escape. The operatives established his identity and found out that he lives in the house No. 5 on the same street. The police arrived at the house, but the man, seeing the law enforcement officers, fired shots in their direction and barricaded himself in the apartment,” says a message on the department’s Telegram channel.