On Friday, a massacre occurred in the north of Moscow. “On Korneychuk Street, in the area of houses number 37 and 42, a man was seen in the courtyards during the day with a knife in his hands. According to preliminary data, he injured several people who happened to be nearby,” a law enforcement source told Interfax . The incident occurred near the pharmacy.

Information about the number of victims has changed several times. It was unofficially reported that from four to twelve passersby became victims of the criminal. Later, Veronika Kharisova, a representative of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the North-Eastern District of the capital, announced eight people had been cut.

At about 5 p.m., the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Moscow reported eleven casualties.

Police officers, according to the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Moscow, detained the attacker within 15 minutes after receiving the signal. According to official data, he turned out to be a 27-year-old resident of the city of Shatura, a native of Yakutia, Alexey Arbuzov .

According to Kharisova, a large knife was seized from the detainee.

A police spokeswoman noted that most of the victims were elderly. In addition, the man attacked a woman with a five-year-old child. The detainee did not touch the child, but he received severe psychological trauma. Now psychologists are working with him.

All victims were hospitalized. The lives of most of them are not in danger.

At first, one victim of the massacre was reported to have died. However, as of 20.30, doctors were unable to save the life of another victim; she also died in the hospital.

Information about the second death came from a source in medical circles, who said that a woman taken to City Clinical Hospital No. 20 died, RIA Novosti reports.

Investigative authorities opened a criminal case under Part 3 of Art. 30, paragraph “a”, part 2, art. 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (attempted murder of two or more persons), Art. 213 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (hooliganism). Arbuzov has not yet been charged; he is a suspect in the case. Currently, a resident of Shatura is in the police department in the Bibirevo district. are working at the scene Investigators and criminologists from the Main Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee . The issue of taking the detainee into custody is being decided.

Why Arbuzov decided to attack passers-by is not yet known. But law enforcement officials say he has mental health problems.

According to the police, he is registered at a psychoneurological clinic at his place of residence.

Investigators said that a forensic psychiatric examination will be scheduled for him in the near future.

A man was detained for stabbing 11 passers-by in the north of Moscow