MINNESOTA
Star Tribune
Article by: JOY POWELL , Star Tribune
Updated: April 2, 2013
A 52-year-old Russian Orthodox priest rejected a plea deal on charges that he pointed an assault rifle at his wife and teen daughter over the girl’s failure to get straight A’s.
A Russian Orthodox priest rejected a plea deal on Tuesday in St. Paul and is headed to trial for allegedly pointing an AK-47 assault rifle at his wife and teen daughter because the girl got two B’s in school.
Kiril Bartashevitch, 52, pleaded not guilty to two felony counts of terroristic threats after allegedly point the rifle at the mother and daughter during a dispute on Jan. 13, according to a criminal complaint filed in Ramsey County District Court.
Bartashevitch fired no shots, but he threw his wife to the floor when she tried to protect her daughter, the complaint says.
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