In Kuzbass, a hunter confused a teenager with a beast and shot him.

In the Kemerovo region, a hunter confused a teenager hiding in the bushes with an animal and shot him with a rifle. This was announced on June 1 by a source of Izvestia.

The incident occurred in the Krapivinsky district. Two teenagers were riding mopeds in the middle of the night and drove off the road into the bushes, fearing that traffic police officers might be in the approaching car.

Three hunters were riding in the UAZ — one of them examined the bushes through a thermal imager and found a silhouette that he mistook for an animal. A 42-year-old man shot into the thicket with a rifle and hit a 17-year-old boy, who died on the spot. Realizing what had happened, the hunters fled, but a few hours later they turned to law enforcement.

The man who fired was detained, and a criminal case was opened into the incident.

Extracurricular hour: a schoolboy attacked a classmate and teachers in Chelyabinsk

After the incident, the Investigative Committee opened three criminal cases.

On May 13, in the Orekhovo-Borisovo Severnoye district of Moscow, police officers detained a pensioner who fired an air rifle from a window at a playground in the courtyard. The shooting was reported by kindergarten staff. The pensioner was detained, and the rifle was seized.