A suspect in two attacks in the Industrial District of Khabarovsk was detained. According to investigators, on February 5 and 8 in this area, in the dark, a man twice attacked single women, stabbing them with a knife. The attacker then hid, not trying to pick up valuables.

In connection with the incidents, local residents began to massively go out to patrol the Yuzhny microdistrict, and fake messages appeared on social networks in which cases of attacks on people in other areas of the city were attributed to the mysterious maniac.

Details of the detention of the suspect, citing sources, were first reported by local media.

It was possible to get out on his trail to the reinforced investigative-operational group of the most experienced employees of the local departments of the IC, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the FSB, which operatives from Moscow joined on Monday, thanks to the incident in 2017 when Vladimir Gorbunov came into the view of the district police officer.

“Then the man, as they say,“ went to the roof ”and with a knife in his hands he ran around the courtyard of his house on Krasnorechenskaya and greatly frightened the neighbors. The district police officers came to his house and identified the villain - the photo robot turned out to be extremely successful. The citizen confessed to the attacks, he is cooperating with the investigation. He says that he fell for the first time because of a woman, took offense at her, and now decided to take revenge on everyone, ”a source in Khabarovsk Krai Today told law enforcement agencies.

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  • © Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Khabarovsk Territory

Soon, official reports appeared about the detention of the suspect.

“During the complex of operational-search measures, the suspect was identified and detained. It turned out to be a 43-year-old resident of the Industrial District. Previously, a man was not prosecuted. The attacker is engaged in private transportation. In the detainee’s apartment, police officers found and seized knives that he might have used for attacks, clothes and shoes. The seized things and objects were sent for research, ”the local Ministry of Internal Affairs said.

They specified that the motive for the attack was the departure of his beloved woman to another man.

“As the suspect explained, his goal was to create a wide public resonance, as a result of which she was supposed to return to him. The attacker chose spontaneously the victims of the attacks, walking around the district in the evening and at night, ”the Interior Ministry said.

The agency also published a five-minute video interrogation of the detained man, in which he himself talks about the motives and circumstances of the crimes. From the confused explanations of the detainee, it follows that his plan was ultimately only partially realized, and that only after the arrest he realized that he had gone to crime in vain.

“I don’t feel guilty,” the man said, admitting that he had planned other attacks, and the next one was supposed to happen on the day when he was detained. He admitted that he did not expect the police to follow him.

  • © Investigative Department of the SK of the Russian Federation in the Khabarovsk Territory

He also added that he attacked with knives that were found from him during the search.

The regional administration of the UK said that the issue of arresting the detainee is currently being decided, while the department has not yet reported what exactly is attributed to the detainee. Previously distributed by the investigators orientations it was a question of Art. 30, 105 part 1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (attempted murder), while the detainee himself during interrogation stated that he was detained for inflicting grievous bodily harm.

“He did not drink, did not smoke. But there was what is called strange. He was fond of martial arts using edged weapons. He never left home without knives. Several years ago he was even detained for this. He had no family. He lived with his mother and with me. Hated me. At one time I tried to educate him so that he would normally communicate with his mother. So it ended up chasing me around the yard with a knife. Since then I have been afraid of him. Women appeared and disappeared. I think that all these attacks because of the lack of female attention happened, ”said the partner of the detainee’s mother, who lived with him in the same apartment, told Khabarovsk Krai Today.

Both injured women are now in the hospital, doctors say their lives are in danger.