Israel police nab suspect in gruesome family murder
JERUSALEM — Israeli police said on Monday they had arrested a man suspected of slaughtering six members of the same family, including a newborn, because he was fired from the family restaurant they owned.
Demian Kerlik, 39, is suspected of stabbing to death the Oshrenko family in Rishon Lezion outside of Tel Aviv in October in a gruesome murder that shocked the country and was branded one of Israel's worst-ever.
The victims included Dmitry and Tatyana Oshrenko, their three-year-old daughter Revital and four-month-old son Netanel, and Dmitry's 56-year-old parents, Edward and Lyudmilla.
"He didn't slaughter them all at the same time, he simply waited in the flat for hours for all of them to come in one by one," police commander Avi Noiman told a crowded press conference on Monday.
After the killing, Kerlik set the apartment alight, police said.
Kerlik immigrated five years ago to Israel from Russia, where he is allegedly wanted for robbery, police said.
Police believe that Kerlik carried out the killings because he was fired from his job at the restaurant owned by the Oshrenkos some two years ago, and this "developed into deep hatred over time."
Police central command chief major general Nissim Mor said Kerlik re-enacted the crime and that during the re-enactment he knelt in front of the crib in which he allegedly killed the four-month-old Netanel and asked for "forgiveness."
"There is no forgiveness for such a thing," Mor said.
Police also arrested Kerlik's wife Natalia who admitted to planning to rob the family together with her husband.
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Police have arrested a man in the murders of a family of six found stabbed to death in their burning apartment near Tel Aviv, Israel. Damian Kirilik, 38, is believed to have killed the Oshrenko family at their home in Rishon LeZion after being fired from their restaurant.

Kirilik gave a re-enactment of his alleged actions which saw him wait at the house for each person to return home before killing them. The deceased were 56-year-old grandparents Edward and Lyudmilla Oshrenko, their son and daughter-in-law Dmitry and Tatyana Oshrenko and the children, three-year-old girl Revital and four-month-old boy Netanel.

The Oshrenkos were Russian immigrants who ran the restaurant and several clubs for other Russian Israelis. Kirilik, too, had emigrated from Russia five years ago, where he is alleged to be wanted for robbery. Around two years ago he was sacked from his position as head waiter and police say the years had turned this grudge into hatred.

Police central command chief major general Nissim Mor said Kirilik had asked to be forgiven while kneeling before the infant's cot. Mor commented that "there is no forgiveness for such a thing." Kirilik's wife has admitted to assisting her husband in plans to rob the Oshenkos and is also in custody for assisting him, as are several other Kirilik family members. The murders they are accused of involvement in have been described as "one of Israel's worst-ever crimes", according to the ''Agence France-Presse'' news agency.