the city of Kamyshlov (Sverdlovsk oblast) police shot and killed a drunken man who threatened them with a crowbar.
the Guards called the lady of the house who reported that her husband, drunk, beat her and tried to strangle him. When police arrived at the scene, the husband of a woman left to the yard with a crowbar in his hand and began to hang around at the newcomers, brandishing a metal tool. One of the guards pulled out a gun and fired a warning shot into the air, but the brawler didn’t stop it.
In subsequent shots, the man was wounded. In the hospital he died.
According to preliminary data, the service weapon was used lawfully. “The security forces acted in accordance with the Federal law “On police”, — told RIA Novosti head of the press service of the Ministry of internal Affairs of Sverdlovsk region Valery Burnt.
the relatives of the deceased told that he was previously in a condition of alcoholic intoxication, behaved inappropriately and have even attacked people with a hatchet.