Investigators have launched a murder inquiry into the shootout at a restaurant in the Odintsovo district, Moscow region, Olga Vradiy, a spokeswoman for the Moscow regional office of the Russian Investigative Committee (RIC), told Interfax on Monday.
“On the evening of September 19, at one of restaurants in the Odintsovo district, a man shot, presumably from a pistol, two visitors sitting at a table, and then fled. One of the victims died at the scene, the other has been hospitalized. A criminal case has been opened over the incident under Article 105 part two (killing of two and more persons) and Article 222 (illegal firearm possession) of the Russian Criminal Code,” Vradiy said.
Investigators are inspecting the scene, trying to identify those involved in the murder, she said.
Meanwhile, a Moscow regional police spokesperson confirmed the incident to Interfax.
“At the moment witnesses of the incident are being questioned to ascertain all circumstances of what happened,” the spokesperson said.
Earlier on Monday a source in law enforcement agencies told Interfax that the man killed in a shootout at a restaurant in the elite Gorki-2 village in the Moscow region was Yevhen Zhilin, the leader of a Ukrainian public organization called Oplot.
