ITAR-TASS News Agency
TASS
September 28, 2005 Wednesday

Defendant wounds plaintiff, lawyer in Moscow court

MOSCOW

A defendant in a Moscow magistrate’s court fired with an assault
rifle at the plaintiff and his lawyer, seriously wounding both, city
police told Itar-Tass.

The incident occurred in Domodedovskaya Street about noon on
Wednesday. “During a court hearing, the defendant took out a
Kalashnikov rifle and fired several shots at the plaintiff and his
lawyer. The men were hospitalized with serious wounds,” a
law-enforcement official said.

The attacker, an ethnic Armenian, was detained and brought to a
police station.

A group of investigators are working at the scene of shooting. They
are questioning court personnel about how the man brought the weapon
into the building unnoticed.