USA: 41yo Killed His 44yo Wife And 20yo Stepson In Their Home In Henderson, NV 15 Miles From Las Vegas. Prosecutors To Seek Death Penalty. He Shot Them 5 Times Each.

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8 News Now — Las Vegas published December 11, 2024: Man calmly admits to killing wife, stepson in Las Vegas valley home: 'You've got to arrest me'. The Las Vegas valley man accused of killing his wife and stepson calmly tells police to arrest him, adding where officers will find their bodies, in video the 8 News Now Investigators obtained.

News 3 Las Vegas published October 15, 2024: Henderson man claims self-defense in fatal shooting of wife, stepson, 911 call released.

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Prosecutors to seek death penalty for Henderson man accused of killing wife, stepson

written by David Charns

Friday December 13, 2024

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Prosecutors intend to seek the death penalty against the man accused of killing his wife and stepson should a jury convict him, documents said.

Karl Groschen, 41, is accused of killing his wife, Anastasiya Akutsina, 44; and his stepson, Sergei “Evan” Scoggins, 20, on Oct. 11 inside a Henderson home near Warm Springs Road and Stephanie Street. A grand jury later indicted Groschen on charges of open murder and child abuse, records said.

In video the 8 News Now Investigators first obtained, Groschen told an officer to arrest him as police responded to his home after the shootings.

“There’s two dead bodies, you’ve got to arrest me,” Groschen said in the video. “I thought they were trying to kill me.”

Groschen allegedly fired a handgun nine times inside the home, killing Akutsina and Scroggins, documents said.

“As such, he knowingly created a great risk of death to more than one person by means of a weapon, device or course of action which would normally be hazardous to the lives of more than one person,” prosecutors said in documents filed Thursday. “He killed the two victims present in the residence as well as endangered the lives of the more than one person.”

Prosecutors also cite “aggravating circumstances,” which they said could qualify for death.

Groschen did not enter a plea during his arraignment last month. Last month, his attorney asked a judge to submit him to a competency evaluation. If the judge determines a person is incompetent based on doctors’ rulings, a person could spend months to years in a state facility achieving competency. A defendant’s criminal case is essentially paused during that process.

Groschen’s case showed a hearing regarding his competency was scheduled for January.

The state has not put a person to death since 2006.