The man who opened on Tuesday, July 11, shooting at the shopping center "Luchik" on Altufevskoe highway in Moscow, was a former policeman. Arriving at the scene of law enforcement officers found two corpses.

"The identity of the shooting man is established, this is a former traffic police officer, a colonel," RIA Novosti reports with reference to an informed source.

This information was confirmed in the Ministry of Internal Affairs: "The deceased worked in various posts in the police department. In September 2016, he was dismissed from the internal affairs agencies for seniority. Award weapons from a man in 2011, "- TASS quotes the official representative of the department Irina Volk.

According to the Telegram-channel Mash, shooting in the office located in the building of the shopping center "Luchik" in the north-east of Moscow was arranged by the former platoon commander of the Special Purpose Center of the State Traffic Safety Inspectorate Colonel Anatoly Solomakhin. From the award-winning Makarov pistol, he shot first in his lover, and then shot himself.

It is not excluded that the crime was pushed by a jealous man. However, there is evidence that the deceased not only lived together, but also worked in the same company. "It's impossible for outsiders to simply go into the building," Komsomolskaya Pravda told journalists of tenants of office premises in the building of the shopping center.

- We have here an access system, security, turnstiles ".

On the fact of the murder, the capital's investigators opened a criminal case on the first part of Article 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. As established, the man of 1966 g. Produced at least four shots in his female partner, and then committed suicide, according to the website of the TFR.

At the moment, forensics work at the scene. Investigators restore the picture of what happened and find out the motives for the crime.