Taxi Driver Second Victim of Shooting Bandits in Moscow
Bandits from Rublyovka claimed a taxi driver who drove them to Moscow as a victim.
The second victim of the two bandits who were detained by security forces on Rublevskoye Highway may have been 34-year-old taxi driver Vladimir Terentyev, who drove the armed men from Penza from Samara Region to Moscow. The first victim, according to investigators, was a 39-year-old resident of Penza. The bandits first kidnapped and then killed him.
Liza Alert reported the disappearance of taxi driver Vladimir.
Recall that the two armed suspects, Mikhail Leontiev and Alexei Lanzhikov, were found the previous evening in the stairwell of a residential building on Rublevskoye Highway in Moscow. During the arrest, one of them opened fire and was killed in a shootout with officers from the Interior Ministry and the National Guard. The second was neutralized and detained.
Posters for the suspects Leontiev and Lanzhikov were distributed.
According to investigators, before arriving in Moscow, the Penza bandits had been hiding in Samara Region after the kidnapping and murder of a fellow countryman. In Samara, they found a taxi driver who agreed to drive them to Moscow for 85,000 rubles (approximately $850 at current rates) — Vladimir Terentyev. On 31 January, the taxi driver stopped answering calls. Terentyev«s relatives raised the alarm.
The body of the slain taxi driver was found in a car in western Moscow.
«We first filed a report with the police, and they contacted the search and rescue group, «Liza Alert»… Today he was found dead,» the mother of the deceased driver told the MSK1.RU editorial team.
Upon arriving in Moscow, the bandits refused to pay for the ride. The driver«s relatives suspect that Vladimir heard or saw something that made him a dangerous witness for the criminals.
«He probably heard something he shouldn«t have. And they got rid of him,» Vladimir»s mother speculated in a conversation with MSK1.RU.
As reported by Irina Volk, official representative of the Russian Interior Ministry, these two bandits were wanted for the kidnapping and murder of a Penza resident in late January. According to sources from «112», one of the detainees had previously been convicted of a double murder. Their possible involvement in other crimes across Russia is now being checked.
The body of the slain taxi driver was discovered in a white Lada in western Moscow, not far from the location of the previous day«s shootout. Forensic investigators are currently working there, establishing all the details of the incident.
According to «Moskovsky Komsomolets», the first victim of the bandits was the husband of a woman with whom one of the killers was involved.
