
The puck hit became fatal for an 11-year-old fifth grader from Zelenograd on Thursday evening on the hockey field of the Vympel Ice Sports Palace in the east of Moscow. The ridiculous death overtook the boy during training.
As it became known to the "Moscow Komsomolet" , Sasha Grafkin has been engaged in hockey from early childhood. Father several times a week drove his son from Zelenograd to training on a federal avenue. Sasha had good makings, coaches praised him. The guy in the future could become a professional hockey player. The tragedy happened at 20.10, in front of Sasha’s father. A puck hit the boy’s neck, and the unfortunate died on the spot.
“Sanka rode along with the guys on a warm-up-they ran on the skates a circle clockwise,” said the father of the deceased Vladimir Grafkin. “Other boys worked out on the goal. When Sasha drove behind the gate, one of the children hit the puck. She flew past the collar and landed in my son. I got into the right side. Then I got up.
The resuscitators called to the place were powerless. In Zelenograd schools No. 1703, where the child studied until the 4th grade, and in No. 618, where he went to the fifth grade, teachers perceived the death of the child as a personal tragedy.
Sanka, as the teachers affectionately called him, everyone loved. “He was a golden boy, the soul of the company, he had many friends,” the teachers say in one voice, wiping his tears. Sasha participated in almost all school contests and matinees, studied at "4" and "5". Most of all, he liked mathematics and natural science.
The audit on the fact of the death of the student is now conducted by employees of the Investigative Committee under the prosecutor's office of Russia.