Policeman murder suspect detained in Moscow - investigators
MOSCOW. May 29 (Interfax) - A suspect has been detained following the murder of a policeman near the Moscow Ring Road after a police chase two days ago, Yulia Ivanova, spokesperson for the Moscow branch of the Russian Investigative Committee, told Interfax on Friday.
"A man, born in 1990, has already been detained. Charges will be filed against him soon and he will be remanded into custody as a restraining measure," Ivanova said.
Police officers were chasing a vehicle presumably carrying a suspected criminal at around 3:00 a.m. on May 27, she said. The car was stopped by a police patrol at the 24th kilometer of the Moscow Ring Road. The suspect then ran out of the car and hid in a nearby forest. As police tried to detain him, the man stabbed one of the officers with a knife at least three times. The policeman died instantly.
A Moscow police spokesman, for his part, told Interfax that the suspect had been detained by detectives from the Moscow criminal investigations department.
"He tried to offer resistance, but was detained and taken to a police station," the spokesman said.
The detained man, identified as native of Azerbaijan Nemat Rashidov, has already confessed to killing Junior Sergeant Andrei Bannov. Rashidov also claims that he was going to turn himself in to police.
"I killed him. Prior to it, we stole a payment terminal," the suspect says in a video released by the Moscow police press service.