MOSCOW, September 4 (RAPSI) – A suspect in killing a policeman at a Moscow metro station has been charged with infringement on the life of a law enforcement officer, the press service of the Investigative Committee’s Moscow Directorate reports Tuesday.

According to investigators, late in the evening on September 2, a police officer stopped a person for checking documents. Later, the policeman’s body with a firearm wound to the head was found in one of maintenance rooms at the Kurskaya metro station.

The suspect was identified, a criminal case over the murder was opened. Several examinations including physical and chemical, ballistic and dactyloscopic are to be conducted as part of the case, the Investigative Committee said.