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The "Blood Magic" gang was a criminal community organized in 2007 by Irkutsk resident Konstantin Vladimirovich Shumkov (seen above), born in 1988. The gang included teenagers from dysfunctional families who lived in the same courtyard in the Leninsky District of the city. According to the investigation, from January to June 2008, Shumkov and four teenagers committed the murders of five homeless elderly people, one rape, and caused serious bodily harm to three victims, all in Novo-Lenino, an Irkutsk district.
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The ''friends'' drank and smoked, and then went to a local wasteland, which the gang themselves called the valley of death. They searched for victims in there, by preference, homeless people.
The first victim of the gang was a lonely old man who always greeted guests cordially. He was especially kind to those who brought alcohol with them. Several times the teenagers visited him without doing anything. ''At first we just drank, and when the alcohol ran out, we simply beat him to death with bats,'' Shumkov recalled during interrogation.
The second gang's victim was a homeless man who was beaten to death before being dismembered, the victim's severed head was put on a fence of a school, his internal organs were also scattered along the school. After their second crime, they had became famous.
During interrogation, Konstantin had said that they had beaten another unfortunate person to death in the boiler room with the whole crowd and left him to die. After some time, they returned to the crime scene, and there was a second homeless person sitting there looking at the corpse. Before his eyes, the body of the homeless man was disemboweled and all the entrails were put into a bag. After which the second resident of the boiler room was offered to go and scatter the organs around the school grounds. He agreed, apparently he wanted to live, but one of the gang members decided otherwise, he stunned the victim with a stick and brutally beat him. After the homeless man stopped showing signs of life, they smashed his head, threw his body into a well and simply left. The members still had to throw human organs at the school. Initially, they wanted to do this on the territory of the district police department, but they decided not to take any risks and went to the walls of their native educational institution, where some members went.
In May 2008, a teacher at School No. 30 was the first to arrive at work and saw a horrific scene: the entire yard was littered with severed human body parts, and the head of the victim, the elderly homeless man, was impaled on the school gate. Classes were then cancelled so as not to shock the children.
In June, another body was found on the outskirts of the Leninsky District, an old woman. Investigators looked for witnesses and found them. Several people saw the gang dragging the body along the street. As it turned out later, before killing the old woman, the criminals raped her. It was thanks to the testimony of witnesses that the criminals were detained. There could have been more corpses, but the criminals adhered to the following ''principle'': beat the victims almost to death, most often used shovels, and leaved their victim to die.
3 people survived the atrocities of the group. One of the men had two fingers cut off, which Shumkov kept at home under the lid of a printer. In addition, a pickled eye of one of the victims was found in his apartment. Konstatin during investigation said that he did it because ''I wanted to, without relying on moral laws.'' There were and other and 4 carjackings. Konstatin did not participate in arson and car smashing. He was only interested in murder.
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On March 1, 2010, the Irkutsk Regional Court sentenced Konstantin Shumkov to 25 years in prison, 10 years of which he spent in a special prison and another 15 in a maximum-security penal colony. Another gang member, 19-year-old Roman Evgenievich Burmakov, received 10 years in a correctional colony, Denis Sergeevich Sokolnikov, 19, received 9 years in a general-security penal colony, and Nikolai Valerievich Chesnokov, 18, received 6-5 years in a correctional colony. Aleksei Nikolaevich Shandura, who was 14 at the time of the crime, received 6 years in a correctional colony. The mothers of the members were present in the tribunal.
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Konstantin Shumkov was born in Kazakhstan in 1988 and raised solely by his mother, with whom he later moved to Irkutsk region. Since he was a child, he had sadistic interests, torturing pigeons, which he hunted from his attic, and even confessed to skinning and hanging them on the wall. Soon, Konstain switched to stray dogs. "Unlike cats, I don't like dogs," he tried to explain the reason for his actions during one of the interrogations. It was with dog blood that he first wrote the abbreviation "MK" on the fence of one of the kindergartens, which, according to Shumkov's plan, had two equivalent decodings: "Small Collective" or "Blood Magic".
It wasn't difficult for Konstantin to start a conversation with the members, as his dream was to become an elementary school teacher. He even spent some time studying pedagogy before being expelled (he also had dropped out of an university he went too). To earn a living after this failure he worked as a DJ at a local cafe bar at night, and during the day, he earned small amounts of money from odd jobs such as car cleaning and installing plastic windows.
He apparently dislikes books and enjoys hip-hop rap music. He liked to getting high on fridays and used to have a bad relationship with his neighbor ''Zina''. (this testimony is not verified and neither trustworthy, but it was on an russian ask-site)
This is supposedly his last legal and public move since his sentencing in 2010. He filed a supervisory complaint in July 13, 2022 attempting to reopen or review his case at a higher court level.
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Footage and interview of Konstantin.