Overview
- Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office says Kot carried two handguns into the Sarasota home and had two more handguns, ammunition, five knives, rope, tape and an axe in his vehicle, with more than 20 shell casings recovered and each victim shot multiple times.
- Authorities report Kot sent a suicidal text to his family after killing Olga Greinert, 49, and Yaroslav Blyudoy, 39, then waited for Florita Stolyar, 66, and her husband, Anatoly Ioffe, 61, to return before fatally shooting them and then himself.
- Fort Lauderdale police identified their victims as Larisa Blyudaya, 46, and her son, Ben Azivov, 18; investigators say Kot previously lived with Blyudaya and had a prior romantic relationship with her.
- Video shows the suspect’s vehicle traveling north through Punta Gorda and entering Sarasota’s Amberlea neighborhood at 11:01 a.m., with gunfire captured shortly after and, 37 minutes later, the male victim seen arriving and being shot at the front door.
- Detectives say Kot relocated from Illinois to Fort Lauderdale in fall 2025, had stayed at or cared for animals at the Sarasota home, had met the family’s housekeeper previously, and had no documented history of violence or recorded mental-health crisis; the investigation remains active.