ITAR-TASS News Agency
TASS
September 28, 2005 Wednesday
Police investigating Moscow court shooting
MOSCOW
Moscow police are investigating the shooting incident in a city
magistrate’s court, when a defendant fired a submachine gun at the
plaintiff and his lawyer, wounding both.
Police overpowered and detained the attacker, a 39-year-old ethnic
Armenian, immediately after the incident, which occurred in
Domodedovskaya Street about noon on Wednesday.
He is likely to undergo a psychiatric test. “The man must have been
displeased with the court hearing and sought revenge in this manner,”
a law-enforcement officer told Itar-Tass.
“During the court hearing, the defendant took out a submachine gun
and fired several shots at the plaintiff and his lawyer, wounding one
to the stomach and the other to the arm,” the official said.
Both victims were hospitalized. Their condition is now satisfactory,
according to medics.
Police said they had seized a home-made submachine-gun from the
Armenian.