32-year-old Nikolai Shvets, suspected of killing his ex-wife Ekaterina and injuring her colleague at the facility of the South Ural Railway in the Chelyabinsk region, is the deputy chairman of the council of deputies of the Poltava rural settlement of the Kartalinsky district.
His brother Alexander is the chairman of the council of deputies.
According to the data on the settlement’s website, Nikolai Shvets, in the council of deputies, is a member of the faction of the United Russia party, from which he was nominated for the elections (the documents indicate that Shvets himself is non-partisan). He works as a mechanic at the GOK.
The parents of Nikolay Shvets are large farmers in the Kartalinsky district.
Recall, according to the security forces, on the evening of February 21, Shvets, on the territory of the South Ural Railway, where his ex-wife Ekaterina worked, killed his ex-wife with a firearm and wounded the master. After that, he fled and tried to commit suicide, but caused himself a non-fatal wound. He was arrested and is in the hospital. The family has three small children.
The wounded master is now in intensive care.