Saratov Death Reclassified as Murder as Moscow Police Detain Suspect in Car Shooting

Overview

• Regional investigators opened a homicide case over the January 23 shooting at a hunting base in Saratov’s Novoburassky District, reversing an initial accident account tied to a snowmobile crash.
• The Investigative Committee alleges the suspect fired a hunting rifle at a 37-year-old acquaintance, who died at the scene near the settlement of Karabulak.
• Witnesses are being questioned and laboratory analyses have been ordered as part of the Saratov investigation.
• Separately in south Moscow, a man blocked a courtyard exit on 6-ya Radialnaya Street and fired several times at a 32-year-old motorist’s car, causing damage.
• Police detained a 30-year-old and seized an item resembling a pistol, with a criminal case opened on hooliganism.