A criminal case has been initiated into the murder of four people at a party in an apartment in Yekaterinburg. This is stated in a message published on November 7 on the website of the Directorate of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Sverdlovsk Region.
“A criminal case has been initiated under clause a, part 2 of article 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (murder of two or more persons). A reinforced investigative-operational group was organized to the scene of the incident, which, in addition to the employees of the territorial investigation department, included investigators for especially important cases and forensic investigators of the regional TFR, ”the department reported.
The incident was reported to Izvestia earlier on Saturday by the head of the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Sverdlovsk Region Valery Gorelykh. According to him, the report of the shooting arrived at the police at 2:34 am local time (0:34 Moscow time). As a result of the incident, four people were shot, one girl was hospitalized with gunshot wounds. Another girl born in 2004 was found in the apartment.
According to Gorelykh, one of the victims lived in an apartment, he was previously convicted, worked, according to a number of data, as a security guard in a private security company. A traumatic pistol MR-80-13T and a SAIGA-20K smoothbore hunting rifle were registered for it.
According to the surviving girl, they met men on the Internet, went to a party to the owner of the apartment. Police and investigators will determine what caused the shooting.
According to a Izvestia source, the young people drank and met girls on social media. The reason for the disagreement is not clear, but the owner shot the guests with a Saiga carbine, after which he committed suicide.