Police chief goes on killing spree

AN off-duty Russian police chief went on a killing spree at a Moscow shop, leaving three people dead and at least six injured, Russian news agencies reported.

Major Denis Yevsyukov, head of police of Tsaritsyno district, first shot dead the driver of a car he was travelling in and then entered a shop where he unleashed a barrage of gunfire.

Yevsyukov “fatally shot the driver of the Chevrolet Lanos he was being driven in,” a spokesman for the Russian prosecutor’s investigative committee, Vladimir Markin, told RIA Novosti. “The police head then entered the Ostrov supermarket and continued firing. As a result a female cashier and a man were killed. Another six people received gunshot wounds of varying degrees. The shooter was detained.”