Girls killed boy in challenge for video
Two teenage girls in Moscow Oblast lured a 12-year-old sixth-grader to a derelict building and fatally stabbed him, allegedly to test their own limits and create content for a challenge. The boy went missing on August 26 and was found dead the next day with multiple stab wounds.
Consensus
- A 12-year-old sixth-grader went missing on August 26 in Kabanovo, Oryolovo-Zuyevsky District, Moscow Oblast.
- The boy's body was found the next day in a basement of a derelict building on the grounds of a former vocational school.
- The body showed multiple stab wounds to the chest, neck, abdomen, and both arms.
- An investigation was launched and an indictment was filed under the charge of murder of a minor.
- Two girls aged 15 and 16 were arrested and are under investigation.
- The girls allegedly planned the attack in advance and lured the boy to the location under false pretenses.
- The incident occurred in a derelict building in Kabanovo, Moscow Oblast.
- An investigation into the circumstances and motives is ongoing.
Points of divergence
- One of the suspects admitted during interrogation that she wanted to 'find out what it's like to kill.' — vm
- The suspects stated they wanted to 'see how a person dies and feel like executioners.' — riamo
- One of the girls filmed the attack on a phone, and the act was part of a challenge. — tg_mash
- The girls had previously posted disturbing videos online and planned to become nurses to 'cut people.' — vm
- One motive suggested was that the boy knew about the girls' same-sex relationship and might have exposed it. — vm
- Three girls were arrested, not two. — tg_mash
- Five people were stabbed in a school attack in Kansk, Krasnoyarsk Krai, on September 1. — interfax
- A ninth-grader stabbed a 15-year-old classmate with a knife in a school in Bashkortostan on September 2. — vesti
Coverage (10 sources)
- Bastrikin will be informed about the incident in the Bashkir school where a student injured a classmate — Вести
- Knife wounds during attack in Krasnoyarsk school affected five people — Интерфакс
- Prosecutors opened a case after a student attacked with a knife at Kansk school — Вести
- Student attacked teachers and children with a knife at school in Krasnoyarsk Krai — Интерфакс
- Murder of a sixth grader in Kabanovo: how they killed him, why they accuse two girls, what are their motives — Вечерняя Москва
- «What is it like?» Girls revealed why they killed a schoolboy in the Moscow region — РИАМО
- Stabbed with a knife: teenage girls killed a sixth grader in the Moscow region for a challenge — РИАМО
- Sixth grader stabbed in Kabanovo village under Orekhovo-Zuyevo: who was detained on suspicion of murder — Вечерняя Москва
- Teenagers stabbed sixth grader in Orekhovo-Zuyevo — for video for challenge. — Mash
- REN TV: Schoolgirls from the Moscow Region might have killed a child for video for a challenge — Вести
Key entities
- Krasnoyarsk Krai
- Orekhovo-Zuyevo
- Moscow
- Russia
- SK
- Kansk
- Kabanovo
- Moscow Oblast
- Republic of Khakassia
- INTERFAX.RU
- Max
- Interfax
- Alexander Bastrykin
- Bastrikin A. I.
- Nikolay Koreshkov
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