An alleged photograph of a motorcyclist who shot police officers has appeared on the Internet.

Photo: Social networks.

A photo of the alleged pawnbroker appeared on social networks , who shot police officers in the Moscow region and fled the scene on a motorcycle. According to preliminary data, he is moving at high speed towards St. Petersburg.

As the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation clarifies, police officers were wounded near the village of Yakimovo in the urban district of Chernogolovka. Law enforcement officers from the Shchelkovskoye department were on duty, they were trying to detain a drug dealer. One of the police officers died on the spot, the second was taken to intensive care with a head wound.

Police units of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region have been put on high alert in order to apprehend the criminal.

The Shot Telegram channel reports that the suspect is 30-35 years old, of Slavic appearance, he hiding on a black motorcycle without license plates.