The case was opened after a shooting brawl in St. Petersburg

A criminal case under the article "Hooliganism" was initiated following the incident on Vladimirsky Prospekt in St. Petersburg. There was a scuffle, shots were fired.

In total, four people became participants in the fight, writes 78.ru with reference to the city TFR. According to preliminary data, two young men provoked a conflict in a public place and attacked two other men. They shot one of them with a flare pistol. The victim needed medical help.

The police, in turn, said that a young man tried to break up a fight between unknown people, but he himself was the victim of an attack. He was beaten and shot in his direction.

The attackers were detained and charged. The issue of initiating a criminal case is currently being resolved.

On January 23, the Investigative Committee of St. Petersburg reported that in the shopping and entertainment complex "City Mall" in St. Petersburg, security guards strangled to death a customer of the Perekrestok store, who was suspected of theft. It is specified that the criminal case has been reclassified as an article on murder.