{"id":593140,"date":"2026-10-23T13:03:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T10:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=593140"},"modified":"2026-10-23T13:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T10:30:11","slug":"investigative-committee-confirms-death-of-man-who-shot-at-police-officers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/investigative-committee-confirms-death-of-man-who-shot-at-police-officers","title":{"rendered":"Investigative Committee Confirms Death of Man Who Shot at Police Officers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Investigative Committee has reported that a resident of Astravets District who opened fire on police officers has died. A criminal case has been opened under Part 1 of Article 14 and Article 362 of the Criminal Code (attempted murder of an employee of the internal affairs agencies).<\/p>\n

The Investigative Committee confirmed the account provided by the Ministry of Internal Affairs earlier this morning. Police received information that a 65-year-old local resident was illegally keeping firearms and threatening his neighbours with them. Police officers, supported by special forces from the Internal Troops, were dispatched to his home.<\/p>\n

\u201cAccording to preliminary information, the pensioner offered armed resistance and fired a shot in the direction of law enforcement officers, posing a real threat to their lives and health. In response to the unlawful actions, an officer from a special unit used a firearm to neutralize the threat. The man died from his injuries,\u201d<\/i> the Investigative Committee said in a statement.<\/p>\n

A hunting rifle, cartridges, two objects resembling homemade pistols and three rounds of ammunition for a rifled firearm were seized from the man’s home. A series of forensic examinations has been ordered.<\/p>\n

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The Investigative Committee has reported that a resident of Astravets District who opened fire on police officers has died. A criminal case has been opened under Part 1 of Article 14 and Article 362 of the Criminal Code (attempted murder of an employee of the internal affairs agencies). The Investigative Committee confirmed the account provided […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":593147,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/6adb3737c7e5d.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Investigative Committee Confirms Death of Man Who Shot at Police Officers"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143094],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-593140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-incident"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":593150,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593140\/revisions\/593150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/593147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}