According to preliminary data, the teenager was pushed in the back, causing him to crash into the glass of the funicular. A glass shard hit the guy in the carotid artery.
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The State Bureau of Investigation began criminal proceedings in the case
The SBI press service reported that the investigation established that on the evening of April 7, a conflict arose between a man who serves as a driver in a law enforcement agency and a minor boy.
After exiting the cable car at the upper station, the law enforcement officer pushed the teenager. He fell, smashed the glass with his head and received a fatal cut to his neck. The minor died on the spot
– noted in the bureau.
According to preliminary data, the detained law enforcement officer has already been suspended from his duties. A set of operational and investigative actions are currently being carried out.
They are preparing to charge the detainee with suspicion of premeditated murder. If proven guilty in court, the man could face 7 to 15 years in prison.
Details of the murder of a 16-year-old teenager on a cable car in Kyiv
In the sports club “Chaika”, where a 16-year-old boy named Maxim played, told, that on the evening of April 7 he was walking with his comrades on Poshtovaya Square, on the funicular. At some point, a man in military uniform, without identification marks, did not like the fact that 16-year-old teenagers were having fun.
He decided to show his military patriotism. Approaching in a drunken state with the words: “Are you ready to repay your debt to the Motherland?” Maxim confidently answered that he was ready,
– they said at the sports club.
The Chaika Sports Complex spoke about the death of 16-year-old Maxim on the funicular / Photo from the Chaika Sports Complex Instagram
The club added that the man pushed the teenager in the back, after which Maxim hit his head on the glass and broke it. One of the fragments hit the guy in the carotid artery.
After that, according to the sports club, Maxim walked a few steps and fell on the stairs of the upper vestibule of the funicular. The wound, unfortunately, was fatal.
A teenager died on the cable car in Kyiv
- Due to the fatal incident that occurred in Kyiv on the evening of April 7, the funicular stopped its operation. The police were at the crime scene.
- Then local telegram channels wrote that a 16-year-old teenager died in the capital’s funicular. According to preliminary data, the victim was a guy born in 2007.
- Eyewitnesses also wrote that the guy died before the ambulance arrived. He lost too much blood during the incident.