81-year-old pensioner opened fire on looters

Hearing the screams of his wife, 81-year-old pensioner of the robbers opened fire with a hunting shotgun.

It happened at night on June 3 in one of the villages of the Slonim district. The two previous convictions for burglary and robbery Slonim residents decided to rob the couple retired. Crime planned in advance. To camouflage cap pulled over his eyes, in his hands - gloves. With a knife and took a flashlight. Shone through the window and saw that the old woman sleeping in a room alone. Tried to enter without noise, taking glazing beads, but the old wood is beginning to crack. Then go ahead. A broken hand glass and climbed into the room. Throwing a pensioner who was sleeping on the floor, pick it up and began to throw again, demanding money.

Hearing the cry of the spouses, the landlord grabbed a hunting shotgun, loaded it and ran into his wife's room.
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Consider dark metnuvshy robber, retired in self-defense fired, wounding the intruder in the thigh. He rushed to the window. The old man pulled the trigger a second time, and the robber threw himself collapsed. The charge hit him in the back. Second offender and had not managed to climb into the house, managed to escape.

Seeing that he had killed a man, retired immediately called the police and an ambulance. Said law enforcement officers about the incident and said that a few years earlier in their village criminals killed two pensioners, demanding pay savings. Since then, in self-defense, he went to bed with his gun. Hunter is from 1957, so shoot accurately.

After inspecting the scene, carrying out other investigative and search operations were established and detained in his apartment who had managed to escape the robber. It has appeared, driven by fear for his own life man fled without looking back nearly eighteen kilometers.

In fact the attempt at robbery with violence committed by a group of persons with re-entry into a home, the Investigative Committee opened a criminal case against a detainee. The issue of a preventive measure in the form of detention.

In the course of the investigation will be given a legal assessment of the actions of the victim, used to protect hunting rifle. In the event that his actions self-defense, he will not suffer punishment.

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