On 30 October 1993 , the volunteers shot and killed a 16-year old Žaneta Sadauskaitė who lived nearby and became friendly with the men . There is no definite version of her death , but likely she was shot in the forehead by accident ( one version claims that the men put a tin on her head and used it as a target practice ) . Haroldas " Haris " Valaitis confessed to the murder , but was acquitted of the murder charges as the judge believed he confessed to protect others because he had a history of mental illness and likely would have been transferred to a psychiatric hospital . No others were charged in Sadauskaitė 's death . Maskvytis and another officer were tried for their pre-coup activities ( taking actions that exceeded their official duties ) and received a two-year suspended sentence in December 1994 . In October 2000 , Maskvytis was sentenced to four years in prison for the possession and trafficking of illegal weapons , explosive materials , and ammunition . During the search of Maskvytis ' home , the police found seven grenades , AK-47 , Luger pistol , hunting riffle IZH , etc . The coup was followed by several controversial high-profile crimes that remain unsolved . On 6 November 1994 , the Bražuolė bridge bombing damaged a bridge over the on the Vilnius – Kaunas Railway , but train derailment and casualties were avoided due to lucky coincidence . The prosecutor 's office investigated 12 different scenarios for the explosion but stopped the pre-trial investigation in 2012 due to the expired statute of limitations . A report of the investigation published in 2015 claimed that the bombing was related to an attempt to disrupt Russian military transport to the Kaliningrad Oblast and send a message of support to Chechnya in its armed struggle for independence from Russia . Juras Abromavičius , officer of SKAT and State Security Department of Lithuania ( VSD ) , who was investigating the coup of 1993 and explosion of 1994 was assassinated on 31 January 1997 when a homemade RDX bomb detonated under his car . In 2006 , the prosecutor 's office announced that it closed Abromavičius 's case . They managed to identify Vladas Grybauskas as the bomb maker but he committed suicide on 10 December 1997 . The statute of limitations for the murder of Abromavičius expired in 2017 . These cases were followed by a string of deaths ruled as suicides : volunteers Remigijus Kuršas fell from a third floor , Irmantas Ruplys , Edmundas Simanavičius , and Remigijus Kazokaitis shot themselves . Kornelijus Rudauskas drowned in summer 1997 . There are many theories and conspiracies surrounding the events . Already during the crisis , politicians expressed views that it was not an action of a few disgruntled officers , but a premeditated political provocation . In general , the two most popular versions blame either the Russian Federal Security Service or Lithuanian ultra-conservatives . For example , former Prime Minister Gediminas Kirkilas once said that the coup was useful to Russia as it could demonstrate that as soon as the Russian Army left Lithuania , the country experienced internal unrest . During an interview on 20 September 1993 , Vytautas Landsbergis , leader of the conservative Homeland Union , expressed fears that the incident could be used as a pretext for the Russian Army to return but at the same time defended SKAT as a necessary institution for the national defense . The political left accuse the conservatives , primarily the Homeland Union . A parliamentary commission in 2007 to investigate Abromavičius ' murder concluded that the murder was carried out by a terrorist-like group that maintained contacts with current and former leaders of the Homeland Union , Lithuanian Christian Democratic Party , and Lithuanian Democratic Party . In 2018 , Audrius Butkevičius and Zigmas Vaišvila publicly and explicitly accused Landsbergis of sponsoring terrorist activities related to the coup and the two bombings
Bražuolė bridge bombing
Bražuolė bridge bombing
Coup of the Volunteers