{
  "id": 14787902,
  "title": "Russian police shoot 17-year-old suspected of setting two patrol cars on fire in Yekaterinburg",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/15/russian-police-shoot-17-year-old-suspected-of-setting-two-patrol-cars",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-15T20:56:52.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Meduza (English)",
    "slug": "meduza-english",
    "url": "https://meduza.io/en/news/2026/10/15/russian-police-shoot-17-year-old-suspected-of-setting-two-patrol-cars-on-fire-in-yekaterinburg"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "In Yekaterinburg, a 17-year-old named Anatoly was detained by a police officer who subsequently shot him while attempting to detain him for allegedly setting two patrol cars on fire. The incident occurred outside Police Station No. 3 following a fire on the evening of October 15. The officer claimed that his actions were \"in accordance with the law.\" The teenager, who was not hospitalized, was reportedly shot in the arm. The Investigative Committee initiated a criminal investigation into Anatoly on suspicion of sabotage, alleging that he had set the fires \"on instructions from handlers\" with whom he had been communicating online. Anatoly is a first-year vocational college student training to become a computer operator. He had previously been under the supervision of juvenile officers for smoking at school and worked part-time as a courier for a cafe. Police are investigating whether the teenager was manipulated by scammers. Since the beginning of the war, at least 240 teenagers in Russia have been detained on terrorism or sabotage charges, with most suspects reportedly seeking easy money. However, six teenagers set arson after being manipulated by scammers, and five opposed the war in those cases.",
  "summary": "A police officer in Yekaterinburg shot a 17-year-old while detaining him on suspicion of setting fire to police vehicles, the Interior Ministry’s Sverdlovsk regional directorate told Vecherniye Vedomosti.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}