arrived at the home<\/a> in the Victoria Park neighborhood that afternoon, they found the bodies of Larisa Blyudaya, 46, and her son, Ben Azizov, 19.<\/p>\nThey 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\u2019s family: her mother, Florita Stolyar, 66, stepfather Anatoly Ioffe, 61, and brother Yaroslav \u201cStan\u201d Blyudoy, 39, as well as the family\u2019s housekeeper, Olga Greinert, 49.<\/p>\n
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A photograph of the five family members killed in a mass murder stretching from Fort Lauderdale to Sarasota. (Courtesy\/Seth Ginsberg)<\/p>\n
After murdering the six victims, police say, Kot then shot and killed himself.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
As Blyudaya\u2019s daughter waited for information from the police that day, she grew desperate, 911 calls show.<\/p>\n
Thirteen minutes after her first call, she called again.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere should be a police search going in Fort Lauderdale and I wanted to call in and get an update,\u201d she said. The dispatcher informed her that they had not sent anyone out yet.<\/p>\n
\u201cCan you make sure an officer gets dispatched ASAP?\u201d the daughter said.<\/p>\n
The dispatcher told her he would send a message.<\/p>\n
A third call appeared to come from a different woman.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe don\u2019t know where he is, we can\u2019t find him,\u201d the woman said. \u201cThey went to his apartment and he wasn\u2019t at his apartment and his car isn\u2019t there.\u201d<\/p>\n
The woman called back again later, saying her call with a police officer had disconnected.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, in Sarasota, Kot had driven to a home in the Fallcrest neighborhood, where he killed Greinert and Blyudoy, then sent a \u201csuicidal text\u201d to members of his own family, according to the Sarasota County Sheriff\u2019s Office. He then stayed at the home until Stolyar and Ioffe returned, shooting and killing them both before turning the gun on himself.<\/p>\n
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\u2019s deputies searched Kot\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n
Kot had moved from Illinois to Fort Lauderdale in the fall of 2025, according to the Sarasota County Sheriff\u2019s Office. He had lived with Blyudaya until the end of 2025, at which point they parted ways.<\/p>\n
Kot had also either stayed at the Sarasota house or taken care of the family\u2019s animals in the months leading up to the shooting, according to the Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n
Law enforcement has not offered any possible motive for the shooting.<\/p>\n
\u201cA review of Kot\u2019s cellular phone records did not reveal any apparent triggering event prior to the shootings,\u201d the Sarasota County Sheriff\u2019s Office said.<\/p>\n
This is a developing story, so check back for updates.\u00a0Click here<\/a>\u00a0to have breaking news alerts sent directly to your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman whose family members were killed in a murder spree stretching from Fort Lauderdale to Sarasota called…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[506,112,28,249,251,250,114,115,109],"class_list":{"0":"post-154820","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-lauderdale","8":"tag-broward-county","9":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","10":"tag-florida","11":"tag-fort-lauderdale","12":"tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","13":"tag-fort-lauderdale-news","14":"tag-latest-headlines","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-social"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}