The key facts

  • On the night of October 26 in St. Petersburg, according to preliminary reports, a math teacher killed his mother-in-law and two-year-old son; his girlfriend jumped out of a window and called for help.
  • A former colleague of the suspect said that while working at a swimming pool he attacked the female supervisor after a conflict; the incident was hushed up and the man was asked to resign.
  • A neighbor and a colleague described him as a nervous man who wore the same clothes; the teacher treated children tactfully.

What happened

On the night of October 26, a family murder occurred in an apartment on Komissar Grushko Street in the Krasnoselsky district of St. Petersburg. According to preliminary reports, a math teacher killed his mother-in-law and two-year-old son, and also tried to attack his girlfriend — the woman jumped out of a window and called for help. Gazeta.Ru reported this.

What acquaintances said

The TV channel 78.ru spoke about the suspect's past behavior, citing his former colleague. According to her, when the man worked at a swimming pool, he had a serious conflict with the female head: she criticized him over planning and insulted him. After that he attacked her and knocked her to the floor, but the incident was hushed up, the victim did not file a lawsuit, and the aggressor was asked to resign — the case never went to court.

Contradictory characterizations

The same colleague noted that the teacher always treated children tactfully, although she considered him a person who 'kept his own counsel.' One of the neighbors said she perceived him as an 'unwell person' because of his gait and nervousness. Both women also said he constantly wore the same clothes. These characterizations paint a contradictory picture: tactfulness in working with children coexists with descriptions of outbursts of aggression and oddities in behavior, but all of this comes from acquaintances' testimony, not from the investigation's conclusions.

Context and what remains unknown

Gazeta.Ru also mentioned a separate case in the Moscow region, where an uncle killed his nephew, who had won lawsuits against him over an inheritance— there is no direct connection between these incidents in the publications. Official details of the St. Petersburg case — the exact circumstances of the killings, the suspect's condition, his procedural status — are not disclosed in the cited publications; information about the victims and the course of events remains preliminary.

Why it matters

The incident raises questions of safety in the educational environment: the suspect worked with children, and, according to his former colleague, a previous episode of aggression at his former workplace was hushed up without going to court. The cited facts suggest that conflict incidents involving the teacher received no official legal assessment, and vetting of such cases could give employers more information when hiring. Final conclusions, however, are possible only after the results of the investigation, which are not yet available in the publications.