A killer shot a man in Moscow: what is known, details, witnesses

In Moscow, a killer opened fire on a man with a machine gun – the crime was committed on Alexey Sviridov Street (Fili-Davydkovo district, Western Administrative District). Police and several ambulances are currently at the scene.

Police began searching for the shooter

According to preliminary data, the killer was dressed all in black – black pants, jacket and cap. He attacked his victim in the area of ​​the playground. After the first shot, the victim started to run, but the killer overtook him and, with targeted shots, knocked him down and finished him off not far from the entrance of a residential building on Alexei Sviridov Street.

Previously, the criminal fired from an AKS-74U assault rifle. He managed to hide in the courtyards of residential buildings in the Fili-Davydkovo area. At the same time, how writes Mash, a woman with small daughters miraculously escaped from the shooter: according to her, she saw a man in a mask with a machine gun in his hands – he was running and shooting at passers-by. The woman ran away with the 5-month-old and 9-year-old girls.

Meanwhile, the police have already begun searching for the criminal. The “Interception” plan has been announced in Moscow. As they said at the capital’s headquarters of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the crime was of a custom nature: the shooter on Sviridov Street purposefully fired several shots at the victim.

The shooter was detained on Aminevskoye Highway

At about 13:00, the capital’s ICR department reported that a suspect in a murder in the west of Moscow had been identified and detained, and he was wounded during the arrest. As Baza clarifies, law enforcement officers suspected that the criminal could have hidden in someone’s car, so they checked all vehicles.

In addition, they combed the forest area within a four-kilometer zone from the murder scene. As a result, the suspect was found in the area of ​​Aminevskoye Highway and detained after a shootout.

An IT specialist was the victim of the attack

Telegram channel Shot reportsthat the victim of the crime was 34-year-old Konstantin Balishansky, who worked as a system administrator in a capital company that rented communication equipment. The deceased is the son of the head of the Mediasystem Group company, Andrey Balishansky. The company deals with multimedia equipment, LED and LCD screens, and provides them with large exhibitions and events.

Konstantin worked in his father’s company and was also involved in skateboarding – he became the first skater in the NikeSB Russia team. Andrey Balishansky himself refused Shot comment on what happened.

Eyewitnesses spoke about the murder in Moscow

The killer fired eight shots at intervals of several seconds – eyewitnesses of the crime told Lenta.ru about this.

Another local resident, Sergei, said that the main witness to the attack could have been the crane operator.

Meanwhile, the shooting of a man with a machine gun in the west of Moscow was caught on video. In the footage, a killer in black clothes shoots from a machine gun at a man running away from him. After several hits, he falls onto the lawn and never gets up. The shooter fires a control shot and leaves.

After a murder in the west of Moscow, a case was opened

As Lenta.ru was told by the capital’s prosecutor’s office, the victim for whom the shots were fatal was a man born in 1989. According to the supervisory agency, the work of law enforcement agencies on the spot is coordinated by the Deputy Dorogomilovsky Interdistrict Prosecutor.

As Yulia Ivanova, senior assistant to the head of the capital’s main headquarters of the Investigative Committee of Russia (ICR), told Lenta.ru, a criminal case has been opened into the crime under Part 1 of Article 105 (“Murder”) and Article 222 (“Illegal storage and carrying of firearms and ammunition to him”) of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. Now employees of the capital’s Investigative Committee are working at the scene and studying recordings from CCTV cameras.