Medford Double-Murder Suspect Due In Court After Bodies Of Missing Men Found In Storage Unit

By WBZ-News Staff, CBS Boston

April 18, 2023

BOSTON – New information is expected to be released Tuesday about the married Medford couple found murdered inside a storage unit. The man arrested in connection to the deaths is expected to face a judge.

Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan said Pavel Vekshin, 28, and Kiryl Schukin, 37, of Medford were reported missing earlier this month. On Saturday, the men's bodies were discovered at the iStorage facility on North Beacon Street in Brighton.

Pavel Vekshin and Kiryl Schukin were found dead in a Brighton storage unit/Middlesex District Attorney's Office

Leonid Volkov, 37, also of Medford, is being charged with the married couple's murders. Police say he stabbed the two men, and dismembered Schukin, dumping body parts in rubber bins in the storage unit.

Leonid Volkov/Middlesex District Attorney's Office

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