Ivashevka massacre
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