Teen Arrested for Murder of Mother in Gornouralsky

«When Natasha was attacked, I was at home, but it all happened so quietly, I didn»t even hear anything. A friend called me to ask why there was an ambulance and police at the house, said that Natasha had been stabbed, and I was in shock.«

«Natasha moved here with her parents when this house was built, about 30 years ago. Excellent people, you won»t hear a bad word about them. Everything was on Natasha. After her father died, she kept the garden and the livestock. Her mother has bad legs — she helped her too. She raised three children herself: her son went to the special military operation and went missing, she put her eldest daughter through university, and the youngest is still a schoolgirl. I don«t know how they»ll manage without her,« — says a neighbor of the Kiryanov family in Gornouralsky.

The tragedy has shaken the small town near Nizhny Tagil. In Gornouralsky, the streets don«t even have names, only the houses are numbered. The entire town consists of three blocks of buildings from two to five stories high. There is a school, a sports center, and a couple of kindergartens. Those who work mostly commute to the city. And the young people don»t see any prospects here and dream of moving at least to neighboring Nizhny Tagil.

Everyone in the town knows about the knife attack on 47-year-old Natalya Kiryanova. A 15-year-old Anton has been accused of the woman«s death. On January 6, Natalya was at work, and afterward she went to a store to buy groceries for a Christmas dinner. According to the investigation, in the entrance of the building, the woman encountered a local hooligan. The teenager stabbed Natalya in the stomach and fled. The victim barely made it to her apartment, where her 13-year-old daughter called an ambulance. The woman was immediately taken to the hospital and operated on, but they couldn»t save her — on January 12, the patient died.

The suspected murderer was found quickly: he was placed under house arrest, but he removed his bracelet and ran away. For five days, Anton hid, and he was detained when he came to a friend«s birthday celebration.

While local residents cursed and were afraid to leave their homes, Anton«s relatives continued to believe in him — the boy left a note in which he declared his innocence: »Dad, I«m not guilty! I didn»t do anything, I won«t sit for someone else, I»d rather die.«

Natalya«s family did not come to court. The eldest daughter of the deceased, Anastasia, now has many worries — she is arranging guardianship over her younger sister. Their mother raised three children alone and worked as an operator on a farm. The eldest brother — went missing in the special military operation, and Nastya graduated from university and returned to her hometown, so she is the only guardian for her schoolgirl sister.

The daughter of the victim told E1.RU how the teenager attacked her mother.

«My sister was home alone (waiting for mom). She was coming up the stairs from the store, and he, most likely, was coming down. And he attacked right on the staircase. Mom made it to the apartment, and my sister called an ambulance. Mom was operated on the first day, she was in more or less condition, but she was nauseous, had vomiting, her blood pressure dropped, she had a fever. On the fifth day, she got really bad, the cause of death was peritonitis.»

«We didn»t know at first that he was under house arrest, no one told us. When mom died, they started dragging him [the suspect] [to the station], and he ran away. All these days it was scary to go outside. After all, there was no motive for the attack: she didn«t know him, and he didn»t know her. There are many rumors in the town about this. And there are drug addicts, maybe he was looking for something in the entrance, or maybe not,« the daughter told E1.RU.

The teenager«s father came to the hearing with a bag of things for his son — he was sure that he would be sent into custody. At the same time, Alexey himself does not believe that his child is capable of such a thing.

«I don»t know anything about what happened. They came to me, told me what happened, I sat down and couldn«t get up. My son doesn»t admit guilt. He was at home under house arrest. Why he ran away — I don«t understand myself. He»s a good boy, played football and hockey, participated in competitions. Normal, not troubled at all,« says the teenager»s father.

The schoolboy told police that at home there were fights between his father and stepmother, including with knives, but they never sought help. The stepmother denied these words.

Anton was placed in a center for troubled teenagers — at that time, the boy said that he himself didn«t want to stay at home.

«We tried to get him back to school, but he skipped classes and wouldn»t make contact, he would tell me to get lost. The streets started raising him. He changed a lot a year and a half ago — since he started receiving his pension himself. He felt the money. He refused to give it to his father. He decided he was independent,« a social pedagogue said.

As a witness, a friend of the teenager«s family came to the hearing. She stood up for the schoolboy.

«Everyone writes that he»s a monster, a murderer who kept everyone in fear. Nonsense! A normal boy! His guilt still needs to be proven. Have you seen him? A child, 1.5 meters tall!« declared Tatyana, an acquaintance of the boy»s family.

The teenager who attacked Natalya lives on the other end of the town. A neighbor of the schoolboy admitted to E1.RU that he was always polite, but he had had problems with the law before. In December, he was wanted after escaping from a correctional center for teenagers. The boy ended up there due to theft.

The neighbor blames the tragedy on the schoolboy«s father, who regularly drinks. Alexey — the accused»s dad — has been married three times: seven children from his first wife were taken to an orphanage. Then he got together with Tatyana — Anton and his younger sister were born. The teenager«s mother also had alcohol problems. Doctors forbade her alcohol, but the woman died due to liver problems when her son was about four years old. The younger girl was taken by her grandmother. And the boy stayed with his father, who until the age of 14 received his son»s survivor«s pension.

The teenager«s dad, after the death of his first wife, moved in with another woman. Neighbors call the family troubled.

«For me, the boy was positive. Always, whatever you ask — he»ll do it, he«s polite. When I»m walking in the entrance — he always waits, holds the door. Maybe somewhere with friends he showed his bad side, but I never noticed that in him,« said Nina, a neighbor of the accused in the attempted murder of the schoolboy.

Neighbors even sympathized with the child with a difficult fate.

«He never saw affection since childhood. No toys, nothing. That»s why he started stealing from stores from childhood. They even caught him when he was little. Of course, what kind of psyche will you have if you grow up like that,« the neighbor is convinced.

The attack on Natalya was not the first recently in the small town. Before the New Year, teenagers beat up a boy with mental disabilities. His mother said that Anton had gathered a whole gang.

«He walked around the town with his comrades like a leader. About five or six people, I never counted them because they are beasts. They made faces, showed off. They attacked my son. His comrades held my son, and he beat him,» said Svetlana, the mother of the injured disabled boy.

The teenager attacked the disabled boy several times, his mother says. He badly beat him in December.

«He pushed him into the forest between pipes, his back and neck — everything cracked. He choked him with a hood. My son came and cried, was afraid of him,» the boy«s mother says.

On January 21, the Prigorodny District Court of Nizhny Tagil arrested the teenager for a month and 16 days. While the investigation is ongoing, Anton will be in custody. In the near future, law enforcement will determine if the teenager is sane. During this time, relatives plan to find evidence of his innocence. And the residents of Gornouralsky will be able to breathe a sigh of relief.

We conducted a live online broadcast from the courthouse. Anton is described as a cruel and evil teenager, but the boy«s father does not believe in his guilt. It also became known that before escaping, the teenager left a note for his relatives, stating that he did not commit the murder.

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