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Police detain suspect linked to Tyumen shopping mall shootout

The police confiscated a nonlethal pistol and a hunting carbine from one of the incident’s participants

MOSCOW, July 4. /TASS/. Police have identified everyone who took part in a July 3 shootout at the Kristall (Crystal) shopping mall in Tyumen. One of them was detained, says the report that was published on the website of the Interior Ministry’s Directorate for the Tyumen Region.
"Police officers carried out investigative operations and a dragnet, resulting in the belligerents being identified and taken [into custody]. Later, police officers found out that an unemployed citizen of a former Soviet republic, born in 1991, fired three shots from a nonlethal pistol at a 40-year-old man. The perpetrator was detained," the report says.
According to the report, the police also confiscated a nonlethal pistol and a hunting carbine from one of the suspects. Two official reports were drawn up against him. Nobody was injured or killed in the incident.