{"id":1400017,"date":"2026-06-01T14:08:30","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T11:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/?p=1400017"},"modified":"2026-06-01T14:08:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T11:08:30","slug":"in-sumy-a-man-fired-at-a-crowd-of-teenagers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/in-sumy-a-man-fired-at-a-crowd-of-teenagers\/","title":{"rendered":"In Sumy, a man fired at a crowd of teenagers"},"content":{"rendered":"

The prosecutor’s office sent the case to court, an indictment against a 60-year-old resident of Sumy, who, while intoxicated, opened fire with a gun and wounded 6 teenagers who refused to vacate the bench.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This was reported by the Prosecutor General’s Office<\/a> and the Prosecutor’s Office of Sumy Region.<\/a><\/p>\n

According to the investigation, on December 9, 2025, six teenagers were standing under the entrance when a local resident made a rude remark to them and asked them to vacate the bench. When the children did not react, he returned to the apartment, took an IZH-43 rifle, loaded it with homemade 12-gauge cartridges, went out onto the 10th floor landing, shone a flashlight on it, and opened aimed fire on the children.<\/p>\n

Four girls and two boys aged 13 to 16 were injured.<\/p>\n

It is noted that the man was intoxicated.<\/p>\n

In particular, the actions of the accused are qualified as an attempted murder of six children for hooligan motives.<\/p>\n

He is currently under house arrest. The investigation has been completed.<\/p>\n

Earlier , “Pryamiy” reported that in Kyiv, law enforcement officers detained a driver<\/a> who opened fire in the Obolonskyi district of the capital during a traffic conflict. As a result of the incident, a 41-year-old man received a gunshot wound, and the suspect faces up to 7 years in prison.<\/p>\n

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Also in the city of Yagotyn in the Kyiv region, a man opened fire<\/a> from a window of a high-rise building and damaged a neighbor’s car. The incident occurred on the afternoon of May 28.<\/p>\n

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The prosecutor’s office sent the case to court, an indictment against a 60-year-old resident of Sumy, who, while intoxicated, opened fire with a gun and wounded 6 teenagers who refused to vacate the bench. This was reported by the Prosecutor General’s Office and the Prosecutor’s Office of Sumy Region. According to the investigation, on December […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":1400012,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76873,76875],"class_list":["post-1400017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-events","category-other-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1400017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1400018,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400017\/revisions\/1400018"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1400012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1400017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1400017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}