Women's crisis center in St. Petersburg, russia, Yagub Vagif oglu Suleymanov, 28, tracked his former live-in partner, 25, down while she was waiting for the crisis center door to open.

He dragged her away from the entrance and stabbed her at least 8 times in the temple and neck. She died from blood loss on the way to the hospital.

The victim had left Suleymanov in September 2026 due to systematic domestic violence and had repeatedly filed complaints against him with the police. Refusing to accept the breakup, he stalked her and even filed a missing persons report with the police to try to locate her.

Authorities opened a criminal case against Suleymanov for murder with particular cruelty (Article 105, Part 2, Clause "d" of the Criminal Code of the russian federation). The St. Petersburg Prosecutor's Office is overseeing the investigation.

In December 2018, Suleymanov was convicted of failing to report a crime and was fined 70,000 rubles. That case involved a 2017 plot to carry out a terrorist attack at the Kazan Cathedral, Suleymanov knew the organizer and tried to talk him out of it, but never reported it to law enforcement.