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Married couple murdered in gun attack outside Mykolaiv court, suspected killer detained

Married couple murdered in gun attack outside Mykolaiv court, suspected killer detained

Today, at about 3 p.m., a local resident fatally wounded a married couple with a firearm in Mykolaiv's Ingulsky District near the building of Lenin District Court.

As reported by Censor.NET citing Interfax-Ukraine, he was later detained by the police.

"A woman died at the crime scene, and a man was taken to the hospital in an ambulance. The attacker was detained by a member of the Ingulsky District's police department," National Police Spokesman Yaroslav Trakalo said.

Police say a pretrial investigation has been opened under p. 2 of the art. 115 of Ukraine Criminal Code.

Currently, law enforcement officers conduct investigative actions. At the scene, there is the entire leadership of the Mykolaiv Central Board of Police led by the head of the Main Department of Emergency Situations in the Mykolaiv region Oleksandr Anokhin.

The detained is a man, born in 1966. Today, there was a court hearing on debt obligations between him and the married couple. The court ruled in favor of the couple. After they left the court building, the attacker pulled a firearm from the car and shot at the couple.