DJ Watch: Quest for ‘knowledge’ leads DJ and teens to impale human head on fencepost, burn man alive
It is a noble thing to dedicate your life to educating the young, even if our society doesn’t value teachers the way it should. And yet at the same time, teaching can also provide a shelter for all manner of time-servers, frauds, phoneys, creeps and even perverts.
As for Konstantin Shumkov of the East Siberian city of Irkutsk, well– he really wanted to mold young minds. For him it was a passion. We can see this because after he flunked the entrance exam to the local teacher training college he nevertheless formed a youth club to give the local kids something to do. Working as a DJ at night, he dedicated his free time to expanding the horizons of his young friends in the evocatively named ‘Blood Magic Gang’.
Wait a minute, that doesn’t sound very good. And indeed, upon closer inspection we can see that Shumkov had some strange ideas as to what kind of activities were fitting for a youth club where the members were all 14-15 years old. RIA Novosti reports:
After drinking heavily and taking drugs, Shumkov and the teenagers set out to look for victims, beating them with metal poles and dropping rocks on them. They are known to have burnt at least one person to death. Most of the gang’s victims were homeless people.
But wait– there’s more:
In May 2008, the group’s acts reached their gruesome pinnacle when the body of a vagrant was cut up into dozens of pieces and dumped on the grounds of local schools. The man’s head was left impaled on a fence.
When questioned, one of the teenagers said they initially wanted to leave the body parts on the territory of a city police station, but decided against it. He also said the group had left the head on the fence “for a laugh.”
As for Shumkov, he comes across as rather more pretentious, conjuring up whiffs of Nietzsche, Dostoevsky and Aleister Crowley to explain his deeds:
“I was interested in how a person dies. How it happens. It was something personal. Knowledge,” Shumkov was quoted by regional media as saying last year.
“I did what I wanted to. I wasn’t hung up on any morals,” he said. When asked if he considered himself a psychopathic maniac, he replied in the affirmative.
Following that confession, a crack squad of highly qualified experts have confirmed that Shumkov is indeed rather wicked:
A court psychological evaluation determined that Shumkov, who admitted cutting off the fingers of one victim, keeping them in his flat along with the eye of another, displayed “cruel and sadistic tendencies.”
Investigators also claim that like many notorious murderers, the killer DJ began his life of violence by torturing and cutting up small animals.
So there you have it. Unlike in another recent Russian orgy of darkness, Beelzebub does not appear to have been involved. But that’s no comfort really. Meanwhile this past Tuesday Shumkov was sent to prison for 25 years, while his youthful charges have been given from six to nine years in juvenile correction facilities. As for the butchered vagrants, they remain dead.
So why is this man laughing?
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