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Oleg LOKHMATOV

Classification:

Spree killer

Characteristics: Private

Number of victims: 4

Date of murders: January 11,

1997

Date of arrest: Same day

Date of birth: ???

Victims profile: Three fellow soldiers and a civilian

Method of murder: Shooting

Location: Oboryno, Russia

Status: Unknown

For reasons unknown Oleg Lokhmatov, a Russian draftee at a military facility in the Ural mountains, killed three fellow soldiers on guard duty with him and a civilian in a one night rampage.

At about 2 a.m. on January 11, 1997, Oleg killed his fellow guards, stole their ammunition and went to the nearby village of Oboryno, about 1,200 Km. east of Moscow. In Oboryno he entered a shop, killed a customer and wounded an employee.

A special operations team apprehended the rampaging private about two hours after the bloodshed.