YEKATERINBURG, September 1 The Sinarsky District Court sent a man accused of murdering a 16-year-old girl in Kamensk-Uralsky in the Sverdlovsk region to a pre-trial detention center until October 10, the press reported — court service.
The media previously published footage from outdoor surveillance cameras, which shows how the schoolgirl was slowly followed by an unknown man all her way on a bicycle. On Thursday, SUSK reported that the cyclist was detained, he turned out to be a local resident born in 1988, he was being checked for involvement in the crime.
According to the SUSK for the region, a resident of Kamensk-Uralsk was charged not only with the murder of a 16-year-old girl, but also with the theft of her phone. «He was chosen a measure of restraint in the form of detention until October 10,» the agency's interlocutor said.
Investigators continue to establish all the circumstances of the girl's death, the man is also being checked for possible involvement in other crimes.
On the evening of August 9, a ninth grade graduate disappeared after returning to Kamensk-Uralsky by train from Yekaterinburg, where she went to enter the Pedagogical College. The next morning, her body was found in a ravine 10-20 meters from the sidewalk along the forest park zone.
Valery Gorelykh, head of the press service of the regional head office of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, specified earlier that the detained man worked as a slinger at one of the local metallurgical factories and had previously been prosecuted, lived alone in a three-room apartment. To get on his trail and question him for the presence or absence of an alibi, the criminal investigation officers had to be in ambush for a day. The bicycle, the clothes that the man was wearing on the night of the girl's death, as well as other material evidence important for the investigation, were confiscated, the man was tested on a polygraph.