[2] Andrey Gosht's brother Evgeniy came home around 7:30 on the morning after the attack (after working a night shift), found the bodies, and called for an ambulance.
[7] They made confessions[8] and were charged with murder and robbery on 4 May[9] The suspects lived in the little villages of Shigony (Шигоны) and Kushnikovo (34 km from the crime scene) and in the town of Syzran.
Samara region police chief Sergey Solodovnikov, however, claimed that Akhmadov was arrested on 3 May on the border between Tajikistan and Afghanistan,[13] and flown to Moscow while detained,[14] and then to Syzran.
[19][20] Investigators concluded that the gang had prepared for the theft or robbery in the village of Ivashevka, with Akhmadov as leader and organizer gathering sticks to use as weapons.
They stopped near the "Magnit" supermarket in Ulyanovsk where Fataliev tried to get money from a "Sberbank" ATM using Gosht's bank card, but failed because he did not know the PIN.
[25] Investigator Telman Gdlyan has proposed that more experienced criminals, wanting to take revenge on a police officer, might have identified the house to the suspects, telling them that it contained more valuables, encouraging them to commit the crime.
I know that during the last 10-15 years, especially in the Moscow region, in the flats and in the rural houses one can see the arrival of people of Caucasian ethnicity or from Middle Asia, they try to assimilate here, to live with weapons, try to propagate some literature.
[34] "Sadistic killing of Syzran ex-police chief with his family by migrants from Middle Asia - it's just already above the limit ... we all remember the terrible death of a Moscow child at the hands of a crazy babysitter from Uzbekistan".
[36] Later, other politicians also gave support to the visa regime, taking into account the public reaction from the mass attack (with shooting) of migrants from Middle Asia against the North Caucasus ethnical gangs on the Khovanskoye Cemetery (south of Moscow) on 13 May 2016 (500 persons involved, 3 killed, 50 arrested).
Another senator from Federation Council (Russia) and first Deputy of Defence and Security Committee, Evgeniy Serebrennikov, proposed enforcing the visa regime for countries including Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, in order to prevent such incidents.