Alleged Brighton storage unit killer held without bail

The person prosecutors say is behind the 2 males present in plastic storage containers in a Brighton storage unit is being held with out bail because the items of his case are put collectively.

Leonid Volkov, 37, of Medford, appeared in Somerville District Court docket Tuesday morning, shackled and carrying the identical Jurassic Park t-shirt that appeared in his reserving picture from his Saturday arrest. He was charged with one depend of homicide and one depend of larceny from a constructing, to which he pleaded not responsible.

The Middlesex District Legal professional’s workplace on Friday issued the pictures of Pavel Vekshin 28, and Kiryl Schukin, 37, in an try and get the general public’s assist in finding the Medford married couple who coworkers and pals advised police they hadn’t heard from since March 30.

The subsequent day, the our bodies of the 2 males have been positioned in a Brighton storage unit. Schukin’s physique, prosecutor Ceara Mahoney stated Tuesday, was dismembered with completely different items scattered between three completely different containers. Vekshin’s physique was present in one bin.

Each males had died from sharp-force accidents and their deaths have been murder, she stated.

Volkov is to date solely charged with Schukin’s homicide, although Mahoney stated that further expenses will come because the investigation continues.

She requested for the affidavit of possible trigger and the arrest warrant — in addition to all courtroom paperwork apart from the legal criticism — be impounded, citing the continuing investigation.

Choose William Fitzpatrick agreed and ordered the paperwork be stored out of public view.

Prosecutors, nonetheless, outlined the case in courtroom.

Schukin had signed on as a guarantor for the Cabot Street residence the place Volkov lived along with his spouse and two youngsters.

Volkov’s protection legal professional Debra Dewitt stated following the listening to that the 2 males had been pals for years and had met on social media however stated she didn’t know additional particulars of their relationship as she was simply studying the small print of the case now.

Prosecutor Mahoney in courtroom stated that Schukin had realized that Volkov was in arrears on his hire funds and so Schukin had introduced he wished to drag out of the association. The 2 males then met in a U-Haul, which is the final time that Schukin was seen alive.

Mahoney then laid out that Schukin’s BMW appeared in surveillance footage on the storage unit in addition to the U-Haul and that footage appeared to indicate a person becoming Volkov’s description shifting issues between the autos and into the storage models.

She added that surveillance footage from shops all through jap Massachusetts present a person who seems to be like Volkov buying issues — together with cleansing provides like bleach and rubber gloves — from these shops and generally utilizing one of many sufferer’s bank cards.

Private objects together with an electrical scooter have been additionally lacking from Schukin’s residence, resulting in the larceny cost.

Whereas Choose Fitzpatrick stated that Volkov didn’t seem to qualify for a court-appointed legal professional primarily based on his listed revenue — which his legal professional stated got here from work within the IT trade — he granted Dewitt’s appointment as a result of Volkov was evicted from his residence, leaving him and his household homeless.

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