A woman whose family members were killed in a murder spree stretching from Fort Lauderdale to Sarasota called 911, voicing concerns about an “admirer” of her mother and asking them to check on her, newly released recordings show.
“I need the police to come right now, to come check on my mom’s house in Fort Lauderdale,” the woman, who is identified in a fundraiser by the name Eve, said in the first call just after 1:30 p.m.
“Can you tell me exactly what happened?” the dispatcher asked.
“There’s somebody that is, like, an admirer of hers,” the daughter responded, her voice shaking. Some of what she said next is redacted. She gave the dispatcher an address, and the dispatcher said she would send an officer over.
When officers arrived at the home in the Victoria Park neighborhood that afternoon, they found the bodies of Larisa Blyudaya, 46, and her son, Ben Azizov, 19.
They had been murdered by Russell Kot, 51, police say, a man who had been living with Blyudaya. After killing her and her son, he traveled to a home in Sarasota, where he shot and killed three other members of Blyudaya’s family: her mother, Florita Stolyar, 66, stepfather Anatoly Ioffe, 61, and brother Yaroslav “Stan” Blyudoy, 39, as well as the family’s housekeeper, Olga Greinert, 49.
A photograph of the five family members killed in a mass murder stretching from Fort Lauderdale to Sarasota. (Courtesy/Seth Ginsberg)
After murdering the six victims, police say, Kot then shot and killed himself.
Blyudaya had allowed Kot to stay with her as a guest while he looked for a permanent home, according to an attorney representing the remaining members of the family, who refuted reports that Kot and Blyudaya had a romantic relationship.
As Blyudaya’s daughter waited for information from the police that day, she grew desperate, 911 calls show.
Thirteen minutes after her first call, she called again.
“There should be a police search going in Fort Lauderdale and I wanted to call in and get an update,” she said. The dispatcher informed her that they had not sent anyone out yet.
“Can you make sure an officer gets dispatched ASAP?” the daughter said.
The dispatcher told her he would send a message.
A third call appeared to come from a different woman.
“We don’t know where he is, we can’t find him,” the woman said. “They went to his apartment and he wasn’t at his apartment and his car isn’t there.”
The woman called back again later, saying her call with a police officer had disconnected.
Meanwhile, in Sarasota, Kot had driven to a home in the Fallcrest neighborhood, where he killed Greinert and Blyudoy, then sent a “suicidal text” to members of his own family, according to the Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office. He then stayed at the home until Stolyar and Ioffe returned, shooting and killing them both before turning the gun on himself.
All of the victims in the Sarasota home were shot multiple times, and investigators found over 20 bullet casings at the house, deputies said. When Sarasota County Sheriff’s deputies searched Kot’s car, they found two handguns, ammunition, five knives, rope, tape and an axe. Kot had also been carrying two handguns when he shot the family.
Kot had moved from Illinois to Fort Lauderdale in the fall of 2025, according to the Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office. He had lived with Blyudaya until the end of 2025, at which point they parted ways.
Kot had also either stayed at the Sarasota house or taken care of the family’s animals in the months leading up to the shooting, according to the Sheriff’s Office.
Law enforcement has not offered any possible motive for the shooting.
“A review of Kot’s cellular phone records did not reveal any apparent triggering event prior to the shootings,” the Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office said.
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