The death toll in the shooting outside the Moscow headquarters of Russia’s main security agency has risen to two, Russian officials said Friday as investigators pressed to uncover the assailant’s motives.
The Investigative Committee, the nation’s top state investigative agency, identified the attacker as 39-year-old Yevgeny Manyurov, who lived in Moscow’s suburbs.
It said Manyurov opened fire Thursday just outside the main headquarters of the Federal Security Service, killing one security officer and badly wounding another, who later died in a hospital. Officials previously reported just one death.
Manyurov also wounded five other people, including a civilian, before police shot him dead.
Investigators are still looking into the attacker’s possible motives, the committee said.
The attack came shortly after Russian President Vladimir Putin wrapped up his annual news conference. About the same time as the shooting, the KGB veteran Putin was speaking at a Kremlin concert honoring FSB officers and other security personnel less than one kilometer (about a half mile) away. That triggered speculation the attacker was trying to have timed the shooting to embarrass the Kremlin.
