then heard Egorov go room to room, shooting everyone in the house, despite people’s pleas to be spared. Wounded, Oleg Sorokin ran to the neighbors, in order to warn his wife, Svetlana, who would die moments later, and her brother and his wife, who would survive.

Egorov then found Sorokin and shot him again, this time fatally. He also wounded Svetlana, and Konygina says he finished her off by crushing her head with an iron chair.

Egorov then returned to Saveliev’s home and fired “security shots” into the heads of all his victims, dragging some of the bodies into the house, and separating them into different piles. The whole time, Konygina remained hidden under her blanket. Egorov apparently never noticed her, though he was within earshot the entire time. Policefinally arrived at the scene and took Egorov into custody. He confessed to the killings immediately, and is now under arrest.

Sergey Egorov’s cottage Alexander Saiganov / TASS

Locals say they knew Sergey Egorov to be an unsocial, withdrawn person. One neighbor, a man named Alexey from Zelenograd (about 30 miles from Moscow), says he used to talk to Egorov and his mother, when his family first got their cottage in Redkino. “Then they fenced off everything, and that was the end of that. My son stayed in touched for a bit, but then he stopped, too. He said there’s something not right about them,” Alexey told Meduza.

Sergey Egorov has a Moscow residence permit, and by his own account (according to reports on television) he lived there together with his