Member of Vladimir Putin's favourite biker group shot dead The Three Roads tell a different story. They claim that about 60 members of the Night Wolves armed with chains, axes and pneumatic weapons turned up and attacked ten Roadsters who were preparing a barbecue. Several of the victims, they say, managed to barricade themselves in the garage as the Wolves fired on it. What is certain is that one Roadster then shot Valery Bely, one of the Night Wolves, in the stomach with a hunting rifle. He died later from bleeding. The alleged killer, Yury Nekrasov, was arrested on suspicion of murder and is being held in custody. In an interview with a Russian blogger, the leader of the Three Roads, Yevgeny Vorobyev, said he regretted the death but claimed his friend had been acting in self defence. Mr Vorobyev said the group had angered the Night Wolves by ending an alliance with them in September and forging ties with the US motorcycle club, the Bandidos. "We just didn't really like the public activity of the Wolves, all that official stuff," he said, according to the blog. Our ideals are music, bikes, free time and girls, after all. And the Wolves became too politicised. In a statement, the Night Wolves said the club was a victim of a campaign to discredit it by media supporting Russia's political opposition. It claimed Mr Bely had been killed while trying to "disarm a crazy person firing a rifle at everyone around."