MOSCOW, November 5 (RAPSI) – Investigators have charged a resident of Naryan-Mar, a city in Russia’s Nenets Autonomous Area, with killing a 6-year boy in a local kindergarten, the Investigative Committee’s press service reports.

According to investigators, on October 31, the resident of Naryan-Mar in a drunken state entered the local kindergarten and stabbed a child of 6 years with a knife. The boy died on the scene.

Initially, the man refused to give testimony. But later he pleaded guilty to the murder. The defendant was put in detention on November 1.

Moreover, law enforcement officers arrested a guard of the kindergarten, who allowed the alleged murderer to enter the pre-school institution without obstruction. The guard was charged with providing substandard services that negligently led to the death of a minor, according to investigators.