Alexander Taran was nicknamed "Voroshilov shooter", "people's avenger". When his daughter and son died, he picked up a submachine gun and went to punish those he considered guilty.
Biography
Alexander Fedorovich Taran was born in 1951. Until recently, he was considered a calm, not very famous beekeeper who would not hurt a fly. Alexander worked at his apiary in the Stavropol Territory.
But first, Taran served in the army. After that, he managed to work as an auditor, fireman, livestock specialist. He became a beekeeper in the nineties.
Personal life
Everything went well at first. He had an exemplary family, consisting of a husband, wife and two children. Daughter Natalia was born in 1974, and 2 years later a son appeared, who was named Vladimir.
How it all started
But in the nineties, everything went downhill in the family of Alexander Fedorovich. First, my daughter fell in love with a drug addict, and then she herself began to take illegal substances.
When Natalia was 20 years old, she was taken to a local hospital with a diagnosis of drug overdose. The following information from different media is slightly different. Some publications say that the girl died of poisoning, other sources claim that the then working doctor injected the girl with a drug to which she was allergic, and Natalya died of anaphylactic shock. And one of the local residents spread rumors that the doctor of that local hospital was once treated for alcoholism and was drunk that evening.
And Alexander Taran decided that the doctor, Konoplyankin, was to blame for the death of his daughter.
When the daughter was gone, the father completely focused on his son. By that time, the wife of Alexander Fedorovich had gone to work in Greece, and then she found herself a man there and stayed to live in this country. Alexander, too, did not walk with a bean for long. He found himself a woman.
Once there was a holiday in the village, young people went to a disco. But there a conflict took place, as a result of which Alexander's son died.
One of the culprits was said to be the nephew of a prominent local businessman. So Alexander Taran soon had suspects, whom he decided to destroy without trial or investigation.
Crimes
To carry out the crime, the future "Voroshilovsky shooter" acquired a weapon. He decided to punish the uncle of a possible suspect. At first, Taran tried to commit lynching on New Year's Eve. But he did not succeed. But in May 2003, the "people's avenger" carried out his plan. He shot M. Erkenov point-blank near the gate of his house.
Nobody suspected this quiet beekeeper. And he had a second goal in mind. In the fall of the same year, Alexander came to the doctor's house of that very hospital and shot at the alleged culprit in the death of his daughter. He survived, but due to injury he became disabled. Someone says that "Voroshilovsky shooter" at the last moment simply regretted the doctor, did not begin to finish him off.
Then Alexander Taran made an attempt on the traffic police inspector, but he survived. The angry father of the family decided to take revenge on the employee, who 5 months earlier drove the beekeeper's car to the parking lot.
The following crimes are also attributed to Alexander Taran. But his guilt in these acts has not been fully proven. Some believe that he began killing police officers whom he suspected of covering drug dealers. This is how two police officers died in 2004.
Sentence
The suspect was identified by chance. One of the local residents discovered a sawn-off shotgun wrapped in a robe in the forest. Law enforcement officials found out that the weapon belongs to the beekeeper. So a series of murders was gradually revealed.
In the course of many months of investigations and trials, Alexander Fedorovich Taran was sentenced to 23 years in a strict regime colony. So, at the age of 57, he went to serve his sentence.
