"Investigative bodies of the IC of Russia in the Ryazan region opened a criminal case on the grounds of crime ... the murder of two or more persons," the report said.

According to investigators, a man born in 1988, being on the balcony of his apartment in the village of Elatma, made a remark about a group of young people who were talking loudly on the street under his windows.

As a result, a verbal conflict occurred between them, and the suspect took “a registered single-barrel smooth-bore hunting rifle in his apartment” and shot young people from the entrance.