Yet another shooting incident at Moscow wedding, one injured
MOSCOW. Oct 22 (Interfax) - A wedding in southwest Moscow ended in a brawl that included a shooting, a spokesman for the Moscow city police authority told Interfax on Monday.
The incident occurred during a wedding at a restaurant near the Central House of Tourists at 146 Leninsky Prospekt on Saturday night. A alcohol-fueled brawl erupted between approximately 18 wedding guests outside the restaurant. A fistfight ensued, during which one man took out an air pistol, fired several shots at one of the guests, discarded the pistol, then escaped in his Infiniti FX50.
As a result, one man was hospitalized with gunshot wounds to the back and armpits.
Police are searching for the shooter's driver. A criminal case has been opened.
The incident came a day after the Moscow city police once again had to intervene at a wedding during which a happy guest opened fire with a gun, the city police department told Interfax.
"Citizens informed the police on Sunday afternoon that around 20 cars with North Caucasian looking passengers were driving along Sokolnichesky Val when a man in a red Bentley GT shot into the air. A rapid reaction unit and criminal investigation police were immediately sent to the incident scene," the department said.
The police learned that the 38-year-old driver of the luxurious vehicle fired two shots from his IZh non-lethal weapon into the air on the motorcade's way to a restaurant.
"The police blocked the motorcade in Sokolniki and took the shooter to a police station. He was charged with petty hooliganism (Article 20.1 of the Russian Code of Administrative Offenses); the case was sent to court," the department said.
It appeared that the wedding guests were not North Caucasians. All of the guests live in Moscow.
A police source told Interfax that the shooter was also a Muscovite and an ethnic Tatar.
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