The Ivashevka massacre () involved the murder of six members of a family and the critical wounding of a seventh on the night of 24 April 2016 in the village of Ivashevka, Syzransky District, Samara Oblast.
The victims included Colonel Andrey Gosht (), the deputy head of police HQ in Samara Oblast and former head of the Syzran town police from 2013–2015, his wife, his mother and father, his sister-in-law and her daughter. Another niece, 7 years old, survived despite extensive injuries and a long coma.
Preliminary evaluation
Andrey Gosht's brother Evgeniy came home around 7:30 on the morning after the attack (after working a night shift), found the bodies, and called for an ambulance. The victims were severely beaten with sticks and the body of Andrey Gosht had some signs of torture as if he had been interrogated by killers. Police soon found that the video-recording server for CCTV cameras around the house was stolen by the killers but three cameras under the roof had separate (internal) recording devices. A number of strange facts made the case a lot more suspicious: Andrey Gosht had hired a security to guard the house and his family while he was working in Samara city but released the guard whenever he was at home himself (as he had been that Sunday); furthermore, the family had a guard dog which had been poisoned just a week before.
Investigation
The police announced a reward of 3 million rubles for assistance leading to the identification of the perpetrator.
The local police for the Samara region stated that the purpose of the crime was robbery.
The SK / IC spokesman informed the media that they had three main versions of the crime but could not reveal them because of the investigation's secrecy.
The first three suspects, Azerbaijani citizens, were arrested during the night of 1 May, and on 2 May they were transferred to Syzran. They made confessions and were charged with murder and robbery on 4 May
The suspects lived in the little villages of Shigony (Шигоны) and Kushnikovo (34 km from the crime scene) and in the town of Syzran. Roman Fataliev (23 years old) — from Azerbaijan, lived in the village Shigony, officially unemployed, but worked unofficially on the construction sites (He had the criminal record during his school time - two years on probation for racketeering, assault and battery). Islam Babaev (21 years old) — from Azerbaijan, lived in Syzran, worked with his brother as a builder on construction sites. Orhan Zohrabov — from Azerbaijan, lived in Shigony, studied in polytechnical college. (He had the criminal record - three years in prison for stealing sheep.)). Makhmadali Akhmadov (24 years old), Tajik (married a local woman whom he converted to Islam, they have a common child), lived in Kushnikovo. The last suspect Akhamadov managed to escape to his homeland Tajikistan through Kazakhstan one day before the other three suspects were arrested. According to the Investigative Committee, he was arrested at Domodedovo International Airport when he took a flight from his home city Dushanbe.). Samara region police chief Sergey Solodovnikov, however, claimed that Akhmadov was arrested on 3 May on the border between Tajikistan and Afghanistan, and flown to Moscow while detained, and then to Syzran. Investigators concluded that he was the mastermind of the crime. Akhamadov told reporters in Syzran that he was not guilty. Akhmadov said that he was not guilty, had nothing to do with the crime, and was going to return to the Russian Federation to prove his innocence.