“If you see this video, I am no longer alive.” YouTube publishes posthumous explanations of a man who shot his wife and himself

In Kaliningrad, a man shot his ex -wife from a hunting carbine, tearing her at the entrance, and then committed suicide. Now on its previously unpopular channel on YouTube there are posthumous notes, where he tells the story of his financial failures, in which he partially blames the killed, speaks of preparation for a crime and tries to justify himself.

On the evening of November 26, shots were heard in Kaliningrad on Chernyshevsky Street. The locals initially took the noise for the explosions of the firecracker or fireworks, it soon became clear that it was shooting. A tall man of dense physique, as eyewitnesses described it, shot a woman at least six times at the entrance, and then committed suicide.

The shooter was a resident of the Kemerovo region, 37-year-old Alexander Mashkov. According to his own admission, he planned in advance the murder of his ex-wife Alena: before that, Mashkov recorded several videos explaining the causes of his act, the recordings after his death began to appear on his Utuub-channel “Beard in the course”.

“If you see this video, I am no longer alive. And another person who is to blame for all this. Of course there is a share of my guilt, but it can be so to speak: what happened, it happened, ”says Mashkov in the first video that appeared on November 28, two days after the murder. This record, according to Alexander, was made on November 17. Mashkov probably loaded the videos on YouTube and planned their further publication in order to explain the causes of his act after death.

Mashkov moved to Kaliningrad from the Kemerovo region after his ex -wife Alena in the summer of 2020. According to the Kaliningrad neighbors of Alena, she made repairs in the apartment, and then transported the children.

A neighbor of the murdered told the Klops.ru publication that she communicated closely with her about the repair of basements and other household issues, she described her as a friendly and polite woman, hoped that their children would be friends.

“I think I did the right thing. Yes, of course, killing people is bad, in general, very bad. I am not a killer, I did not want this, but what she did - I will tell now, ”says Mashkov in the first video about the murder, which was then planned.

He says that he met Alena on the dating site "Mamba", and their marriage lasted five years. After he lost his job and gained debts, relations with his wife deteriorated. In addition, Alexander had to repay loans and pay alimony to maintain a child from his first marriage, Mashkov also mentioned problems with alcohol. In dying videos, he justifies that he was not ready for litigation. “The system breaks. We must work, raise children, and not as they say, by courts ... [walk]. ”

In the video, Mashkov claims that divorce with Alena was “fictitious” to avoid the arrest of her property. However, after the divorce, he was obliged to pay child support and to maintain their son in common with Alena. According to Alexander, his wife “insidiously and vilely” deceived him and did everything to go bankrupt.

The 37-year-old Alexander said that he worked as a welder, also worked for nine years in the Ministry of Emergencies and an engineer at a mine in Kuzbass, lost his job, became a taxi driver and started a video blog-the first video in his channel was published in the summer of 2019, it is called “Alkashka receives according to merits”, at the time of publication of notes on it, almost two million views. He later published several videos on which Mashkov argued with supermarket sellers due to overdue products, he also indicated his card number, offering subscribers to take off his raids.

However, this activity did not bring him money. “It's already a forty, and I'm running with the camera,” Mashkov complained in one of the dying videos.

Having moved to Kaliningrad, Mashkov, he said, rented an apartment and began to work as a driver. He assures that he “met” with Alena and “visited her at home”, although he lived separately, while he was ready “for everything” to maintain a relationship. But the ex -wife made him understand that it would no longer be with him - moreover, Mashkov said that he learned about Alena’s relationship with another man, and even read their correspondence on VKontakte.

Two months later, Alexander Mashkov returned from Kaliningrad to the Kemerovo region, where he again began to earn money as a taxi driver and bear, by his own admission , a plan for the murder of his ex -wife. He wanted to accumulate money to return to Kaliningrad "and punish this bitch."

“I managed to carry my hunting rifle, Saigu 410 caliber, as well as a traumatic gun,” says Mashkov in the latter of the currently published appeals. The weapon was officially registered, the man bought cartridges already in Kaliningrad. According to him, no one knew about the preparation of the murder, although Alexander admits that someone could guess about his plan.

For the second time, Mashkov returned to Kaliningrad in October, again leased a taxi, on which he had forced the former wife on Chernyshevsky Street. The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case under an article on the murder (part 1 of article 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). In his third and last video today, which was published on November 30, Mashkov says that “he has nothing left at the moment,” and his debts amount to 1.6 million rubles. This is the second firing with victims in Kaliningrad. In February, the seller of the central market shot a married couple.
Editor: Dmitry Shvets