US authorities will not demand the death penalty Sophia Tsygankova

The Texas District Attorney’s Office will not demand the death penalty for the 32-year-old wife of Ukrainian pianist Vadim Kholodenko Sofia Tsygankova, who has been formally charged with the murder of the daughters Nika and Michaela.

The investigation into the tragedy that took place on 17 March 2016, continues, writes Star-Telegram.

“Sophia's family and friends are relieved to learn of the District Attorney's Office's decision not to seek the death penalty in this case. They are still mourning the loss of their children and now at least they don’t have to worry about losing their beloved Sophia,” said Tsygankova’s lawyer Joetta Keene.

The arrest warrant for Tsygankova was issued on Tuesday, March 22. A mother is accused of killing her one-year-old and five-year-old daughters.

Police said that when they arrived at the house, Tsygankova was sitting on the floor and swaying back and forth, making inarticulate sounds. The officers saw blood on both hands of the woman and a stabbed wound in the chest.

During the interrogation, Tsygankova admitted that she “did not see a future for herself and her children.” She also testified that she "did not want to live anymore." A woman remembers only how she tried to commit suicide with a knife and medicine. The officers found empty packaging from under the drugs in the house.

Details of the massacre of girls, it can not lead.

According to the police, Sophia Tsygankova strangled five-year-old daughter Nika and her one-year-old sister Mikel using pillows.

Investigators later found that on the night before the tragedy, Tsygankov visited a psychiatric clinic in Fort Worth. She was prescribed a prescription for a drug to treat biopolar disorder and schizophrenia.

The pianist’s family moved to the United States in 2013 after Vadim Kholodenko won the prestigious Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in Fort Worth.

In November 2015, Kholodenko filed for divorce from Tsygankova, also a pianist, after five years of marriage. Since then, the couple conducted the divorce proceedings and did not live together.

Now Sophia Tsygankov is kept in the prison of the town of Tarrant, awaiting trial, the date of which has not yet been set. She does not plead guilty to the murder of her daughters.

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