The attacker who killed one of its employees and wounded five other people in front of the headquarters of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) was a member of a shooting club, Russian media announced today.
Yesterday's attack in Moscow was carried out by 39-year-old Yevgeny Manyurov, a resident of Podolsk near Moscow, REN television and Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper reported.
Those media stated that Manjurov was employed in a private security agency and that he was practicing shooting.
He owned a certain amount of rifles and participated in archery competitions. At the competition in November, he took third place.
Russian authorities have not yet released the identity of the attacker who opened fire yesterday in front of the headquarters of the FSB, the main successor to the former Soviet-era State Security Committee (KGB).
He was killed by the police during an incident in which a civilian was also wounded.
The FSB announced last night that the attacker acted alone and did not enter her building.
Officials have not commented on possible motives for the gunman who opened fire shortly after Russian President Vladimir Putin's annual press conference.
At almost the same time as the attack in front of the FSB, Putin, a former KGB officer, was speaking in the Kremlin at a concert honoring members of the security agency, less than a kilometer away.
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