A Moscow police lieutenant colonel admitted on Thursday to killing the driver of a snowplow that scratched his car last month but said it was an accident, Interfax reported Thursday.
The police officer, Anatoly Maurin, 39, was detained Thursday and charged in the death of driver Vladimir Demidov, a 60-year-old native of Tula, the Investigative Committee said.
Investigators said Maurin, who occupied a senior post in the Interior Ministry’s department for the Central Federal District, shot Demidov with a pellet gun, wounding him in the knee, after the snowplow scratched Maurin’s Nissan sedan in southern Moscow on Dec. 26. Demidov bled to death on the spot.
Maurin told investigators that he fired the gun accidentally, Interfax reported. If convicted in the death, he faces up to 15 years in prison.
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