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ROSTOV-ON-DON, April 20Law enforcement officers detained a 16-year-old resident of Karachaevsk on suspicion of killing a girl, whom he followed while she was walking home from school, reports the SUSK of Russia in Karachay-Cherkessia.
As a law enforcement source said earlier, the body of a girl born in 2012 found in an apartment building in Karachaevsk on Thursday.
«An investigator of the Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Karachay-Cherkess Republic detained a sixteen-year-old local resident suspected of killing a minor,» the agency said in a statement.
The investigators found that the suspect was following the girl on her way from school. When she entered the entrance of the house, he forcibly dragged her into his apartment and killed her. It is noted that the suspect has already confessed.
The department clarified that a criminal case has been opened on the grounds of a crime under paragraph «c» of part 2 of Article 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation («Murder of a minor»).
According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs According to the KChR, the suspect hit the girl on the head with a stone at the entrance, after which he dragged him to his apartment and killed him. «It has also been established that he committed the crime with intent to rape,» the police said.