LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — The person accused of killing his spouse and stepson calmly tells police to arrest him, including the place officers will discover their our bodies, in video the 8 Information Now Investigators obtained.
Karl Groschen, 41, is accused of killing his spouse, Anastasiya Akutsina, 44; and his stepson, Sergei Scroggins, 20, on Oct. 11 inside a Henderson residence close to Heat Springs Street and Stephanie Avenue. A grand jury later indicted Groschen on expenses of open homicide and baby abuse, data mentioned.
“What’s going on?” an officer asks Groschen because the officer walks as much as the house.
“There’s two dead bodies, you’ve got to arrest me,” Groschen responds as he walks towards the officer alongside his 5-year-old son.
Karl Groschen, 41, is accused of killing his spouse, Anastasiya Akutsina, 44; and his stepson, Sergei Scroggins, 20, on Oct. 11. A grand jury later indicted Groschen on expenses of open homicide and baby abuse, data mentioned. (KLAS)
“Who are they?” the officer asks.
“My wife and my stepson,” Groschen calmly replies.
Prosecutors and police consider Akutsina, Groschen and Scoggins argued within the residence’s storage earlier than the taking pictures. A neighbor instructed police that she overheard Groschen telling Scoggins to, “get the [expletive] out of here” and noticed Groschen pushing Scoggins exterior towards his automotive, paperwork mentioned.
A couple of seconds later, the witness heard a gunshot within the storage and noticed Scoggins run into the house. The witness then instructed police she heard a number of extra gunshots after which silence.
Karl Groschen, 41, is accused of killing his spouse, Anastasiya Akutsina, 44; and his stepson, Sergei Scroggins, 20, on Oct. 11 inside a Henderson residence close to Heat Springs Street and Stephanie Avenue. (KLAS)
Within the physique digital camera video, Groschen tells the officer the shootings had been self-defense.
“You’ve got to take me,” he mentioned. “I thought they were trying to kill me.”
Groschen then explains officers will discover his spouse deceased in a automotive parked within the storage and his stepson in a laundry room.
Photographs from contained in the storage present a handgun in plain view sitting close to the automotive. Police didn’t point out any potential weapons involving the victims.
In response to the Clark County Coroner’s workplace, each victims died of a number of gunshot wounds.
Groschen didn’t enter a plea throughout his arraignment final month. Final month, his lawyer requested a choose to submit him to a competency analysis. If the choose determines an individual is incompetent based mostly on docs’ rulings, an individual may spend months to years in a state facility attaining competency. A defendant’s felony case is actually paused throughout that course of.
Groschen’s case confirmed a listening to concerning his competency was scheduled for January. Groschen’s public defender didn’t return a request for remark.
