Seagate man faces life in prison for raping ex, slitting her friend’s throat with child in the other room
A 40-year-old Seagate man was indicted on Friday, December 1 on various charges including first-degree murder and rape after allegedly entering his ex-girlfriend’s apartment, raping her, slitting her friend’s throat and holding her captive for hours while her 11-year-old daughter hid in a bedroom.
According to the investigation, at around midnight on October 29, the defendant – Ruslan Baimov – allegedly entered the Seagate apartment of his former girlfriend, who had recently ended their relationship, by pushing in a window air conditioning unit. When his ex, 38, came out of the shower, she found Baimov in her kitchen, holding a knife to the throat of her friend, 42-year-old Larysa Saad, who was visiting that night.
Baimov is said to have then slit the throat of Saad, who was left bleeding from the neck for hours. He then allegedly cut his ex-girlfriend’s clothes, ran the knife up and down her body – causing a laceration to her leg – and raped her – all while her daughter hid out in a nearby bedroom.