In St. Petersburg, an OMON officer was shot dead. He was hospitalized with a serious injury

In the center of St. Petersburg, an unknown person shot an OMON officer. On this subject writing “Fontanka”.
The incident happened around 11:50 a.m. near the entrance to the Gostiny Dvor metro station. Initially, the publication wrote that the riot policeman was shot in the chest with a traumatic weapon. Subsequently, “Fontanka” reported that they opened fire on the security guard with the buckshot of a sawed-off shotgun. He was hospitalized with a serious stomach injury.
Judging by staff from one location, only two shots were fired in the shootout.
To the press service of the Northwest District of the National Guard Troops declared that the security guard noticed a suspicious person at the time of his service, but when he tried to stop him, he was injured. The name of the injured riot policeman was not reported, however, the Mash telegram channel clarifies that he is 50 years old.
The alleged shooter has been arrested. By information publications, the detainee is a 50-year-old foreigner named Tigran. In his bag find “a few shotguns” and two “Molotov cocktails”. According to Fontanka, Tigran “came from Samarkand” (the capital of Uzbekistan), and in St. Petersburg he lived in Shushary.
The commission of inquiry described the incident as an attempt on the life of a law enforcement officer (article 317 of the penal code).