Source: Akademovsky maniac Lytkin died in the colony while trying to simulate suicide 
Nikita Lytkin, also known as the Akademovsky maniac, located in the Irkutsk region, while trying to feign suicide. On Friday, December 3, a law enforcement source told Lenta.ru.
According to him, currently the main version of the investigation into Lytkin's death is a careless attempt to feign suicide.
“It has been established that Lytkin, before his death, demanded a mitigation of the conditions for serving sentences and several times threatened suicide. Another attempt was clearly demonstrative, but the prisoner overdid it, “the source said.
On December 1, it was reported that the department of the Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) of Russia is conducting an inspection in connection with the death of prisoner Lytkin, born in 1993. The incident was reported earlier on the same day by a source of Lenta.ru.
Academov's maniacs are two serial killers Nikita Lytkin and Artem Anufriev, who from 2010 to 2011 committed nine murders and at least at least 15 attacks on passers-by using hammers and melee weapons. They were detained after another crime. Lytkin and Anufriev were recognized as sane, but at the time of the crimes Lytkin was not yet 18 years old. The law prohibits sentencing minors to life imprisonment, so the youngest of the “hammer maniacs” was sentenced to 24 years in prison. Later, the Supreme Court of Russia reduced Lytkin's term to 20 years. Artem Anufriev was sentenced to life imprisonment.