Alina Sheykhet
Alina Sheykhet
Pictured in June 2015
Alina Sheykhet was a Russian-American college student at the University of Pittsburgh. [1]
Life & Activities
Alina Sheykhet graduated from Montour High School in 2015. She hailed from Ivanovo, Russia. [1]
Death
On October 8, 2017, just before 9:00 a.m. local time, Sheykhet's parents found her body in her second-floor apartment in the 3500 block of Cable Place. An autopsy showed that she had died from blunt force trauma of the head.
At the time of her death, Sheykhet had a restraining order against her ex-boyfriend, Matthew Darby. In the restraining order, Darby had climbed up the gutter on the side of her house and broke through the second floor window of the home. He did this because she left him and stopped answering his phone calls.
She had also listed grabbing and pushing as prior incidents of abuse and described Darby as emotionally abusive, jealous and controlling.
Investigation
On October 9, 2017, authorities stated that they are looking for Matthew Darby wanted for questioning in her death. Her death is treated as a homicide.