Moscow Police Chief Kills Three in Rampage

(Moscow, Russia) Here's another case of a guy who goes crazy and kills people.

A Moscow police chief went on a killing spree early yesterday after arguing with his wife at a celebration for his 32nd birthday.

Major Denis Yevsyukov killed three people and injured six at a supermarket after first returning home to change into his police uniform. Russian television broadcast CCTV footage from inside the supermarket showing Mr Yevsyukov calmly reloading his weapon as he walked down one of the food aisles.

Detectives said that he had been at a café with his wife and father-in-law when the row erupted, apparently after she had complained that he was spending too much time at work since being promoted to head the Tsaritsyno police district in southern Moscow in November last year.

A police spokesman said that Mr Yevsyukov killed the driver of a Chevrolet car who had dropped him off outside the 24-hour supermarket shortly after midnight. He then entered the store and began shooting at random.

A female cashier was shot in the face and died instantly while a male customer was killed after being hit in the chest. Six other people were wounded during the rampage, four of them seriously.

Staff alerted police, who were met with shots when they tried to arrest Mr Yevsyukov, the spokesman said. They managed to overpower him without further injury and he was taken to a psychiatric hospital for examination.

If Yevsyukov had been simply another citizen and not the police chief, the gun control fanatics would be going wild in their complaints about the availability of weapons.