A 15-year-old boy has been detained on suspicion of strangling his mother, a woman from Uzbekistan whose body was found in a suitcase in St. Petersburg, law enforcement agencies told RIA Novosti.
The teenager was detained on Nov. 12. The woman’s body was found in the city’s Pargolovo settlement, where the two lived in a rented apartment.
The Interior Ministry’s Main Directorate for St. Petersburg and Leningrad province said the boy quarreled with his mother on Nov. 2, strangled her and hid her body.
A criminal case has been opened under Part 1 of Article 105 of the Russian Criminal Code, which covers murder. Authorities are now considering what measure of restraint to apply to the suspect.
The woman worked as a cleaner and had not been seen at work after Nov. 1, according to the information provided to RIA Novosti.
Her sister reported her missing to police on Nov. 11. The sister became concerned because the woman was not answering phone calls, although she kept replying to text messages, a pattern that aroused her suspicion.
The woman and her son had been living in the Pargolovo settlement in a rented apartment. The source text does not name either of them, and it contains no direct quotes, so the story attributes all details to law enforcement agencies and the Interior Ministry directorate as relayed by RIA Novosti.
