The security officer was hospitalized with a severe wound to the abdomen, and the attacker was immediately detained. Omon was herded into the city center, fearing protests over the anniversary of the invasion.
On the morning of February 24, Tigran Khachikyan, a 50-year-old native of Uzbekistan, shot a riot police officer in the center of St. Petersburg with a sawed-off shotgun. The security officer was hospitalized with a severe abdominal wound. About it writes Telegram channel about incidents in the Russian Federation “112”.
According to journalists, Khachikyan prepared two pump-action shotguns, cartridges, two Molotov cocktails and a music column at home. Taking all this with him, the man caught a taxi and drove to the Prospect Veterans metro station. There he took another car and got to Sadovaya Street, from where he walked to the Gostiny Dvor station.
The shooting took place near Gostiny Dvor
Here, around 11:50 Moscow time, a man took out a speaker and turned on the music. When officers of the Russian Guard approached him, he told them: “Run away!”. One of the “riot police” made an attempt to detain Khachikyan, but he took out a sawn-off shotgun and fired several shots at the security official. St. Petersburg edition of “Fontanka” clarifiesthat he fired buckshot.
The attacker was immediately arrested.
Location of the incident in St. Petersburg
The riot police officer was hospitalized with a severe wound in the stomach. The name of the injured Russian security official is not known, but the Mash online edition writesthat he is 50 years old.
How writes publication “Kommersant”, today in St. Petersburg the city center was strengthened by employees of law enforcement agencies, fearing uncoordinated protests on the anniversary of the military invasion of Ukraine.
Currently, the scene is cordoned off, the investigative-operational group is working there.
The scene of the incident is now cordoned off.
Recall that on February 21, a tenant of a hostel in the center of Moscow set fire to a 16-storey building in which the MKM hotel is located. 200 people were evacuated from the building.
