Ok, here is what I found out. That guy was carrying, in his inventory but not equiped, the AK-74. I think it was the worn one.
I wound up shooting him in the knee to get him to surrender, which took a lot of tries. When killing him, i guess it tried to re equip it but it couldnt find the texture. Neither a clean install (with the latest 1.7.4) nor the original (patched 1.7 + fix 2) crashed when shooting him in the knee. It was only if he died AND dropped that.
So, after removing his head so to speak, I have not found any further issues.
After all things were resolved, I determined that my case was to delete shader cache folder, not execute the bandit but steal his guns, THEN disassemble the gun. Though to be honest, I am not sure if it was just a problem for him. Will let you know if another similar error pops up.
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