The third department (based in the city of Nizhny Novgorod) of the Investigative Committee’s Head Office continues investigation in the murder of Yekaterina Vashurkin and attempted murder of her husband – chief of Otradny Police Department Dmitry Vashurkin by a group of people (Part 2, item “g” of Article 105, Part 3 of Article 30, Part 2, items “a” and “g” of Article 105 of the RF Penal Code).
According to investigators, at night of 11 December 2016, Dmitry Vashurkin and his wife came back to their house in the settlement of Smyshlyayevka, Volzhsky District, Samara Region and were attacked by a group of people who had been waiting for them inside. The woman died of wounds, including a hacked wound to the head. The police chief came round next morning and called an ambulance who took him to a hospital. At present he is in a hospital with a head injury.
The investigators have questioned more than 200 people, carried out 24 examinations of the crime scene, 23 seizures, more than 100 searches; have assigned 21 forensic examinations. Careful analyze of those investigative operations allowed the investigators in cooperation with divisions of Interior Ministry’s Crime Detection Directorate and the Federal Security Service, Samara Region Directorate of the Interior Ministry to identify five residents of Samara Region in shortest time who were involved in the crime and to detain them. At present, the suspects are being questioned. Three of them have confessed to the crime and given testimonies against other accomplices. As for the motive of the attack, one of the versions put forward at the primary stage of the investigation is being proved true - that it was a robbery-gone-wrong murder.
Investigative operations are ongoing to collect and document some additional evidence against the detainees, who are now expecting restraint and charges.
The investigation is under control of the Chairman of the Investigative Committee.
Acting Head of Media Relations S.L. Petrenko
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