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A Russian judge has been found dead near the court building in the city of Kamyshin, in the southern Volgograd region, having suffered gunshot and stab wounds, the regional Investigative Committee reported on Thursday evening.

The Investigative Committee said that a suspect, who lived locally, had been detained. He has been charged with murder committed with particular cruelty and the illegal possession of firearms.

The investigators have not yet named either the victim or the suspect. However, Telegram news channel 112 named the dead man as Vasily Vetlugin. Vetlugin was seen coming out of the courthouse at which point he was shot. The suspect then proceeded to cut off his genitals and stab him in the eye, leaving the knife embedded in his victim’s head.

The suspect, whom 112 named as 47-year-old local man Sergey K., then handed himself in to the police. A source told state-affiliated business news outlet RBC that the detainee had fought in the war in Ukraine, though Telegram channel Baza said that this had not yet been confirmed.

Jealousy may have been the motive, according to 112, which asserted that Sergey K. had discovered that his wife was having an affair with the judge, and then decided to kill him in this particularly gruesome fashion.