A court in the Arshaly district of the Akmola region has issued a verdict regarding a man who killed four people with an axe. This was reported by Qazaqyia.kz citing Sputnik Kazakhstan.
According to the court, in 2016 the man was sentenced to restriction of liberty and assigned to community service. In 2022, he was subjected to compulsory treatment in a psychiatric hospital. Since 2023, he has been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and was under psychiatric supervision.
The tragic incident occurred in March of this year. The defendant's phone broke, leading to a quarrel with his nephew. The nephew called the police at number "102". However, the mother asked the police not to take action against her son. After the police left, the man escalated the conflict, angered by the police call, and became aggressive. He struck the people in the house several times with a kitchen axe. As a result, the defendant's mother, two elderly people, and his nephew died at the scene.
According to the forensic examination, at the time of the crime the man suffered from a chronic mental illness in the form of paranoid schizophrenia. He was deemed unable to participate in investigative actions and incapable of answering before the court. By court order, the man was released from criminal liability for committing a socially dangerous act in a state of insanity, as provided for in paragraphs 1 and 5 of Part 2 of Article 99 of the Criminal Code. He was assigned compulsory treatment in a specialized psychiatric hospital.
Currently, he has been placed in a republican psychiatric hospital in the Talgar district of the Almaty region under strict isolation and intensive observation. The court decision has not yet entered into legal force.