The detainee, a 48-year-old resident of Chernivtsi, who had previously been criminally charged, was exposed by operatives of the criminal police and investigators of the Lviv District Police Department No. 1 together with operatives of the Criminal Investigation Department of the Lviv Oblast Police.
According to the law enforcement officers, on July 1, around 2:00 p.m., a conflict broke out between the suspect and his roommate, a 37-year-old local resident, in a forest plantation in the city of Vinniki, during which the man stabbed the woman in the chest area, causing a fatal injury.
With the measures taken, the police quickly established the location of the perpetrator and detained him in accordance with Article 208 of the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine.
Investigators of the territorial division of the police informed the detainee about the suspicion of committing a crime stipulated in Part 1 of Article 115 (Intentional murder) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. The sanction of the article provides for punishment – deprivation of liberty for a term of seven to fifteen years.
The pre-trial investigation is ongoing, and soon the court will choose a preventive measure for the suspect.
Communications Department of the Lviv Oblast Police