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| Accused Sacramento Killer Hangs Self |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 02/15/2002 |
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Nikolay Soltys, a Ukrainian immigrant accused in the bloody slayings of six family members, hanged himself in his jail cell early Wednesday, the Sacramento County Sheriff's Department said. Soltys, who allegedly used a knife to kill his pregnant wife, 3-year-old son and four other relatives in August, was scheduled to have a preliminary hearing March 19. In November, Soltys leaped from a second-floor balcony at the Sacramento County Jail, breaking his foot. The previous month, he punctured his chest with a pencil while in jail, but authorities said the wounds were superficial and determined he was not trying to commit suicide. They said at the time that he used a jail-issue pencil and may have been trying to create a tattoo. After that incident, he was returned to a solitary cell where he was to be monitored around the clock with a video camera. But he was not placed on suicide watch. Soltys, 28, allegedly slashed his wife's throat, then killed his aunt and uncle and their two 9-year-old grandchildren before fleeing with his 3-year-old son. The boy was found dead, his throat slit, one day later in a cardboard box on a trash heap. Soltys fled after the rampage, prompting an intense manhunt. In a note he left in his abandoned vehicle, he explained that he killed his relatives because they were ''poisoning'' his reputation. Captured days later in his mother's back yard, he told investigators his wife had been disrespectful. Their troubles began years earlier in Ukraine, where her family said he regularly beat her. |
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