China News Service Moscow, November 11 -- A shooting incident occurred near a restaurant in the center of Moscow, the capital of Russia, on the 5th, resulting in four injuries and hospitalizations. The suspect has been captured as the Russian European Boxing Championship champion Nikita Ivanov.
The Moscow City Procuratorate released a message on the 5th, saying that according to preliminary information, due to a dispute with others, a 37-year-old male suspect used a traumatic weapon to shoot several times at the other party near a restaurant located in the city center, resulting in injuries to four men. The injured were hospitalized with various injuries, including gunshot wounds. The suspect has been caught.
A spokesman for the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs said that the police initially found that due to a dispute with others over trivial matters in the beer restaurant and it turned into a conflict, the suspect shot and injured four people and then fled the scene, and was later discovered and arrested by the police, and is currently under police investigation.
Moscow City Police said the suspect was using a foreign-made traumatic pistol.
TASS and other media outlets, citing sources from law enforcement agencies, reported that the suspect was European Boxing Champion Nikita Ivanov, who was in a drunken state at the time. Nikita Ivanov, born in 1986, has won several medals at the Russian Boxing Championships and won gold in the 2013kg category at the European Boxing Championships in Minsk, Belarus, in 81.
After the incident, Russian law enforcement personnel immediately rushed to the scene to carry out work to find out all the circumstances of the incident. (ENDS)