st. Arif Kazimov, a security guard at the Tolstoy House in St. Petersburg, told Gazeta.ru that he himself neutralized a man who opened fire on Rubinshtein Street the previous day. According to Kazimov, he wanted to calm the man down but started shooting towards him.
“I was working as a guard in the House of Tolstoy, on the cameras I saw a man shooting, I ran to him. At that time a friend of mine called me, he works for us as a janitor, he is not seriously injured, everything is fine. I ran after the attacker, he broke the window of the car by aiming it at the people there. As I understand it, he was under something. I caught up with him, trying to calm him down, but he cursed and fired several shots in my direction. I didn’t hit, thank goodness I turned left. Then he started running and I followed him. He hit an old man, aiming at the company where the boy was on the way, and then I attacked him on Shcherbakov Street. I laid it down, a passerby gave me a tape on which I tied it. After that, the National Guard, the police, OMON came and I handed him over to them,” he said.
On the evening of March 4, a drunken St. Petersburg resident organized Shooting with a traumatic weapon on Rubinstein Street. Three people were injured as a result of the incident: two were hospitalized, and the third was left home after receiving the necessary assistance. According to a statement from the Main Directorate of the Russian Guards, the shooter was detained by operational services. Traumatic pistol and pepper spray were seized from the man. On this fact, a criminal case of hooliganism was opened.