 1100 was preparing his belongings in preparation to leave Crimea, an altercation between him and several soldiers on both sides broke out.The scuffle escalated to where Russian Spetsnaz Sergeant Yevheniy S. Zaytsev shot the unarmed officer twice in the head and chest at point blank range with an AK-74 assault rifle on the 5th floor of the dormitory building where Russian soldiers were evacuating the troops.Major Karachevsky was pronounced dead immediately.