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Oleg Protsenko |
VICTIMS: 5 |
Late in January, 2000, a 18-year-old Russian border guard named Oleg Protsenko had finally had enough. He had been routinely beaten and humiliated by the older conscripts in the army and decided to desert. Problem: He needed a car to escape. So, how did he set about escaping? One night he left his unit in the Kaliningrad area on the Baltic Sea, taking a Kalashnikov assault rifle with him with the idea to steal a car. The problem was that the first car he came across contained five people. Solution: He shot and killed all five occupants of the car (three men and two women). Resolution: Protsenko's body was found early the next morning in the stolen car, which he had driven into a forest. I guess he felt guilty for killing a bunch of innocent people. Why: Protsenko left a suicide note in the cars glove compartment that contained only three words (once translated into English) but that gave no insight into his crime. The note read, “I'm sorry, Mum.” |
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MY OPINION No motive, and I really don’t understand it. I know that it must be pretty fucking hard for youngsters in the Army, especially in Russia, but I just cannot understand why he killed 5 people in a car. He could’ve let them go. And if he was a bit of a nutter, why did he then kill himself pretty much straight away? It makes no sense. This is definitely one of the more bizarre “snap” type mass murders I’ve heard of. |
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