But on 8 January 2006, while Sanatbayev was getting out of a car near a shopping center, two men attacked him, with one shooting him in the head.
On January 8, 2006, Sanatbayev's life was tragically cut short when he was brutally attacked by two men as he stepped out of a car in front of a shopping center, with one of the attackers firing a fatal shot to his head.