MOSCOW. June 1 (Interfax) - David Murashev, who is suspected of having killed prominent Ossetian poet and public figure Shamil Dzhikayev and who was killed in a special operation in Vladikavkaz on Tuesday, was linked to radical Islamists, the Russian Investigative Committee said in a statement posted on its website.
"The investigation possesses information indicating that the dead Murashev adhered to a radical trend in Islam," the committee said.
A pistol equipped with a laser sight and silencer was found on Murashev after he was killed, the committee said.
It also confirmed that three members of security forces were wounded in the operation.
It was reported earlier that the North Caucasus Federal District department of the Russian Investigative Committee had identified Murashev as a man suspected of murdering Dzhikayev and declared him federally wanted.
On Tuesday, Murashev was hunted down in Vladikavkaz and was killed after offering armed resistance in a special operation conducted by police and Federal Security Service (FSB) department for North Ossetia.
An investigation into Dzhikayev's murder is continuing.