Bus driver found guilty of shooting at a car in St. Petersburg

In St. Petersburg, law enforcement agencies detained a bus driver who initiated shooting at cars with an air pistol. Previously, a 16-year-old teenager was suspected of this.

As he writes 78.ru With reference to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, on the evening of May 5, the duty station of the Lomonosovsky district of the Leningrad region received information that an unknown person opened fire on passing cars at a bus stop on Pushkinskoe Highway.

The squad that arrived at the scene found that near the stop "3rd kilometer" an unknown man fired several times from a pneumatic gun at a Belgee X50 car passing by. The rear window of the foreign car was broken. As a result, there were no casualties.

The alleged shooter was detained the next day. It turned out to be a teenager living in the village of Maloe Karlino. A criminal case has been opened under the article on hooliganism with the use of weapons.

On May 7, in Pushkin, on Gusarskaya Street, an operational group detained the initiator of the hooligan prank, a 59-year-old bus driver. It turned out that it was he who suggested that a teenager he knew shoot at a car with an air pistol.

At the end of March, the Ministry of Internal Affairs reported that the number of crimes in transport was noticeably decreasing. This figure is 2.5% lower than in 2024. However, there is an increase in a number of illegal actions. In about half of the cases, minors are involved in sabotage and interference in the work of the transport infrastructure. In addition, the problem of so-called hooking remains serious.