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Suspected Russian Killer of 2 Women in US Detained â€“ Police

22 October 2013 18:55 (UTC +04:00)

Police say the man is a resident of Novomoskovsk, a town in the Tula province, south of Moscow.

Law enforcement authorities launched a manhunt for the suspect, identified in U.S. media reports in 2011 as a handyman called Nikolai Rakossi, after their U.S. colleagues turned investigation materials over to the Russian prosecutor’s office, according to a statement from the Interior Ministry in Tula province.

A report in U.S. tabloid The New York in 2011 cited police as saying that Rakossi, a Russian citizen and former special-ops soldier, stabbed his girlfriend, Tatyana Prikhodko, and her daughter in a Brooklyn apartment.

New York television WPIX reported that police believed the suspect may have left the country for Russia from JFK International Airport shortly after the killing.