Overview

• The suspected shooter was identified by city law enforcement as Konstantin Kozyrev, a former finance executive at construction firm Petrotrest who was previously acquitted in a tax case.
• Preliminary findings state that Alexander Suponitsky, 70, was shot with a carbine near his building’s elevator after seeing his daughter to school, and the suspect then killed himself in an apartment one floor below.
• Authorities have opened a criminal case under Article 105 part 2 paragraph “d” of the Russian Criminal Code, which covers murders committed with particular cruelty.
• Neighbors told RIA Novosti they believe the suspect may have rented a room in a nearby hostel facing the family’s windows to monitor their routine, a claim that remains unverified.
• Suponitsky chaired the SUART group, whose listed projects include St. Petersburg’s Gorkovskaya metro vestibule and the Voroshilovsky Bridge in Rostov-on-Don.