RIA Novosti: “Academic maniac” Nikita Lytkin, sentenced to 20 years for six murders, committed suicide in an Irkutsk colony
A RIA Novosti source in the penal system said that “academic maniac” Nikita Lytkin, sentenced to 20 years in prison, committed suicide in Irkutsk colony No. 7. The local department of the Federal Penitentiary Service reported the suicide of “convict L., born in 1993,” but did not disclose his full name. The year of birth coincides with the year of Lytkin’s birth. The department says that the prisoner attempted to commit suicide on the morning of November 8 in the detachment's dormitory.