‘We couldn’t help him in time’: The Perm Krai’s top investigative official was found dead in a suspected suicide. Sources connect his death to pressure over a recent university shooting.

On September 25, a funeral was held in Perm for Sergey Sarapultsev, the late chief of the Perm Krai Investigative Department (the regional branch of the Russian Investigative Committee). Reports about Sarapultsev's death emerged two days earlier. According to unoffical sources, Sarapultsev died by suicide. The news site VKurse reported that he was found dead at his cottage by his driver. And according to the online outlet Life, his body showed signs of strangulation. The Investigative Committee only confirmed that an investigation had been launched into the cause of death. At the funeral, Sarapultsev's widow said that her late husband "served until the end" and that "something inside him broke" after the university shooting in Perm, which took place just days before his death. Original Article: https://meduza.io/en/feature/2021/09/27/we-couldn-t-help-him-in-time