“At night, the Safiullin police department of the Russian MIA Administration for Kazan received a message about a conflict in one of the apartments of a house on Kul Gali Street,” RIA Novosti of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Tatarstan quotes.
The police who arrived at the scene found out that the 29-year-old man had beaten his partner in the course of a family conflict.
At the sight of the police officers, the man began to threaten them with a knife.
According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the rowdy behaved aggressively, rushed at the police and ignored warnings about the use of service weapons.
At the entrance, a young man swung a heating radiator at the police officers, after another warning, the police fired a shot in his direction, the report said.
The victim was taken to hospital, where he died of his injury.
In October, it was reported that a 16-year-old boy attacked a local police station in Kukmor.