In Vyatskiye Polyany, Kirov Region, a drunk man opened fire from the window on the top floor of a five-story residence on Profsoyuznaya Street. According to the Kirov region office of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, the 47-year-old shooter locked himself in his apartment and began shooting at the window with a hunting rifle.
Police cordoned off the area and SOBR went to the scene. The governor of the Kirov region, Alexander Sokolov, said on his Telegram channel that there were two smoothbore guns next to the shooter.
“They say he hasn’t had a drink for 16 years, that he’s resolved. The body reacted inadequately. There is no one else in the apartment. Police cordoned off the area in a short time. There was no loss of life. SOBR is on its way. “I talked to the head of the Ministry of Interior, the situation is under control,” he said.
Telegram channel Shot reported that the man used a hunting gun to shoot. He shot at the bulletproof vest of a police officer, the officer was not injured. According to Shot, the mother-in-law was in the apartment with the shooter who managed to escape from the house to the neighbors.
The man opened fire on the ambulance and police officers. As eyewitness Ilya told socialbites.ca, the shooter refused to meet with law enforcement and continued to shoot.
“She doesn’t react to anyone’s speech, she’s sane. I didn’t drink for 16 years, I drank and the roof broke. Shoot, release, attack again. Time will pass – it shoots again. There was no loss of life. There were only two shots. First one, then two minutes later, two more. But now he started shooting less, much less. Maybe it was running out of ammo or it started to freeze, closing the windows. Because before that he was sitting by the open window without going out,” said Ilya.
The Investigative Committee confirmed that the man had fired “directly in the direction of the police officers”.
According to the news of Shot channel, the security forces started to raid the apartment after negotiating with the attacker for about 3 hours. The man tried to resist and fired at the door, but was eventually taken into custody.
“The criminal has been detained,” the district attorney’s office said. A criminal case was filed against him under the article “Infringement on the life of law enforcement officers”.
The Regional Interior Ministry reported that one of the law enforcement officers was injured during the arrest. He was hit by a ricochet from one of the shotgun shells fired. The victim’s life is not in danger. Numerous cartridge cases and bullet marks were found in the attacker’s apartment.
Investigators began to investigate the scene. The suspect will then be taken to the police station for questioning.
What is known about the arrow
The SHOT Telegram channel reported that the attacker’s name is Alexander Aleshin, he is 47 years old and works in the wastewater industry. Aleshin’s wife told reporters that the man had not been drinking alcohol for about 16 years, but the other day, doctors discovered that he had a brain tumor and therefore he had been drinking heavily.
The source of the REN TV channel, as well as the Mash Telegram channel, claims that Aleshin drank for four days, after which he began to behave inappropriately. The shooter’s wife told Shot that the man had to go to work on the day of the incident. They have two young children aged 10 and 15.
The interlocutor of the RIA Novosti agency in the combined mission and dispatch service of Vyatskiye Polyany said that there was a family scandal. “A domestic family scandal … We just had a phone call and that’s it. His wife reported that the husband had been drinking for a few days and took the gun in his hand,” she said.
Mash notes that even before Aleshin learned of the diagnosis, he was deaf in one ear and suffered a micro-stroke.
“The doctors said he would never survive again. The man himself was a hard worker, sometimes went hunting, did not drink for 17 years. But it broke. Aleshin’s hunting rifles are registered, ”the Telegram channel writes.
According to Readovka, the incident surprised the shooter’s relatives from Vyatskiye Polyany. His wife said that before Alyoshin she “never drank and never raised her hand to anyone.”
The woman does not know what caused the malfunction, but noted that recently her husband has been holding a lot inside. The day before, she shared that she called her friends to calm Alexander and persuade him to go to bed. On the morning of March 15, the man dropped him off at work and said he was going to work. But then the woman’s daughter called and said “dad is drinking”. The man then opened fire.