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| Elinsky covered in blood as he was brought down by police (Image: Vkontakte / east2west news) |
A killer freed from a
psychiatric hospital with the
all-clear beheaded an 18-month-old baby relative with a knife & brandished
the severed head in a public street, eyewitnesses say.
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| Natalia, the little girl killed by Mikhail Elinsky (Image: REN-TV / east2west news) |
Mikhail
Elinsky, 42, likewise stabbed his
niece - the dead girl's mother - resulting in grave abdominal injuries.
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| The baby with its father Igor before it was murdered (Image: Astrakhan 24/east2west news) |
The man's niece Tatiana
had earlier pleaded with the authorities not to release him from psychiatric
hospital, fearing he remained a danger after he had killed a woman 6 years ago.
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| The victim's mother Tatiana desperately tried to save her daughter (Image: Astrakhan 24/east2west news) |
Eyewitness Anastasiya
Miloserdova said:"The little
girl was his niece, & his mother had begged not to let him out of the
mental clinic.
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| A video shows Mikhail Elinsky repeatedly taunting officers with a knife (Image: Vkontakte / east2west news) |
A local report said the man "ran around the street
holding up her head.... "It took police half an hour to detain the man. He
was taken to the hospital with three gun wounds."
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| The killer was armed with a knife and covered in blood (Image: Vkontakte / east2west news) |
Law enforcement have confirmed the knifeman killed the
child, wounded the mother & that he died of gunshot wounds in hospital.
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| The baby's dad Igor in shock after the death of his daughter (Image: Astrakhan 24/east2west news) |
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| The killer was shot by police after the brutal killing (Image: Vkontakte / east2west news) |
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| The killer had been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and sent by a judge to a high security hospital for treatment (Image: Vkontakte / east2west news) |
Six years ago, the killer had killed a female shop assistant
in the same city, repetitively stabbing her with a knife in a drunken rage.
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