Two Medford males lacking since late March have been discovered stabbed to demise in a Brighton storage unit and a suspect has been arrested, the Middlesex DA reported Sunday.
Following practically a week-long search because the pair had been reported lacking on April 9, police executed a search warrant Saturday morning on a storage unit at North Beacon Street in Brighton rented underneath one of many sufferer’s names, Middlesex Police and the DA’s workplace confirmed.
There they discovered our bodies recognized as Kiryl Schukin, 37, and Pavel Vekshin, 28, inside rubber storage bins, Middlesex Police and the DA’s workplace confirmed.
Both seemed to be stabbed to demise, and one partially dismembered, officers mentioned. Bleach, rubber gloves and objects belonging to the deceased had been discovered within the unit.
Medford-resident Leonid Volkov, 37, was arrested in North Attleboro and charged with homicide Saturday night time.
The police investigation performed by Middlesex District Attorney’s Office, Medford Police Department and Massachusetts State Police discovered Schukin had been a guarantor on Volkov’s house lease and lately refused to resign on the suspect’s lease extension, which led to his eviction, the DA mentioned.
Officials mentioned they imagine Schukin and Volkov met in a rented U-Haul truck on March 29 — later discovered on the Brighton storage facility — and video proof exhibits Volkov getting into and leaving the victims’ constructing after the final time they had been seen. Investigators imagine the defendant used the U-Haul to move the our bodies and objects to the storage unit, the discharge mentioned.
Volkov is scheduled to be arraigned on Tuesday in Somerville District Court.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”