Sacramento, Dec 23: The Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the death of a 1-year-old child as a homicide. The incident occurred just after 4 a.m. on Friday at a residence on the 7500 block of Versailles Way in Antelope.
Deputies responded to a “family disturbance” call and discovered that it involved domestic violence between a husband, wife, and his mother-in-law. Upon arrival, the deputies found the woman outside, but 28-year-old Andrey Demskiy remained inside the home. Demskiy refused to cooperate and did not come to the door, and authorities soon learned there was an infant inside the house.
Deputies forcibly entered the home and encountered Demskiy, who allegedly resisted and fought with them. After detaining him, they made a grim discovery — the 1-year-old child had been beheaded.
The child’s mother-in-law was also found injured and was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening wounds.
Investigators believe the beheading occurred after the wife and mother-in-law left the home. “The deputies that had to discover that and see that — and again these are human beings that go home every night to families, to their kids — and have to process this. This is something that has shaken them,” said Sgt. Amar Gandhi of the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office. “I can’t think of a worse call in 20 years.”
Demskiy was arrested and booked on charges of murder, corporal injury on a spouse, and assault by means likely to produce great bodily injury. He is currently being held without bail.