“The Investigation Department ... opened a criminal case on the grounds of crimes under Part 1 of Art.
105, part 3 of Art.
30, item "a" part 2 of Art.
105 of the Criminal Code of Russia (murder, attempted murder of two persons), ”the report says.
As a result of the search operations in the Republic of Karelia, a 46-year-old previously convicted man was arrested, who will soon be taken to St. Petersburg.
According to the preliminary version, the suspect stabbed a local resident born in 1959 and his son, born in 1979, with a knife on April 7, near a hotel located on Victory Square, for unknown reasons, and then disappeared.
As a result of his injuries, one victim died at the scene, and his father was hospitalized in a hospital.
Earlier, a criminal case was also initiated upon the discovery of the body of a 38-year-old resident with head injuries in the Krasnoselsky district of St. Petersburg.