On Saturday morning, an 8-year-old Connecticut girl who had regained consciousness after a strangulation attempt by her mother discovered her mom’s dead body in another room in the home, Fairfield police tell PEOPLE. 
 
 Detectives believe that Ivanna Krekhtyak, 36, killed herself believing she had just killed her daughter. 
 
 Police say that after finding her mother dead, the young girl ran to a home of a neighbor, who called police, who then found Krekhtyak’s body. 
 
 “All of the evidence at the scene is consistent with that,” Fairfield Police Lt. Robert Kalamaras says. “It’s such a shame. This was a tragic call.” 
 
 The girl, Kalamaras confirms, had strangulation marks on her neck as well as redness on her face as a result of the attack, which occurred the previous evening. 
 
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 Kalamaras says that the young girl is “in stable condition” at a nearby hospital, where she continues to receive treatment for her injuries. 
 
 The Connecticut Post reports that Krekhtyak’s husband, Vasyl Krekhtyak, died in 2015 at the age of 38 after killing himself “by neck compression,” according to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. ||||| An 8-year-old girl found her mother dead in their home Saturday morning and ran to a neighbor’s home for help. Police are investigating, but said the girl had strangulation marks and they believe the mother tried to kill her own daughter, then took her own life. 
 
 Police were called to Barlow Road around 10:30 a.m. Saturday and said it appears that 36-year-old Ivanna Krekhtyak might have hurt her own daughter sometime during the night and ultimately took her own life. 
 
 Investigators said the girl – who might have appeared dead – eventually woke up from being unconscious and ran to neighbors for help. 
 
 “We’re looking to interview the daughter. Obviously she survived, but there’s trauma. There’s some memory issues with regard to exactly what occurred last night,” Fairfield Police Chief Gary MacNamara said. 
 
 Police said the girl had redness on her face and strangulation marks and she is suffering physical trauma. 
 
 “Pretty clear from the injuries this was designed, at least in our opinion at this point, that strangulation was meant to kill her,” MacNamara said. 
 
 There is no indication that anyone else was involved. Police continue to investigate and are hoping they can help the girl in any way they can. 
 
 “This is a sad story all around. And hopefully we can find out what occurred and do the best we can to help her in any way we can,” MacNamara said. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ||||| Mother hangs herself after strangling daughter in Fairfield 
 
 FAIRFIELD — Nearly two years after her husband was found hanging from a tree in the woods near Fairfield University, a mother attempted to strangle her daughter — and then hanged herself. 
 
 The 8-year-old daughter managed to stumble to a neighbor’s home crying for help. When police got to the Barlow Road home, they found her mother hanging in the basement. 
 
 The girl was taken to a local hospital for evaluation of non-life threatening injuries consistent with strangulation, Lt. Robert Kalamaras said. The young girl’s statements, he said, were “consistent with what investigators found at the scene.” He declined to elaborate further. 
 
 Police said they had previously been called to the home, at least once by the daughter, on reports the mother was suicidal following her husband’s death. They said there were no indications during those previous visits that the daughter was in danger. 
 
 But police said on Saturday morning that 36-year-old Ivanna Krekhtyak first tried to strangle her daughter, choking the girl until she passed out. Then, believing she had killed her only child, police said Krekhtyak took her own life. 
 
 On June 22, 2015, Krekhtyak’s husband, 38-year-old Vasyl Krekhtyak, killed himself one week after appearing in a Florida court to face criminal charges for allegedly setting fire to an unoccupied home in a suburb of Tampa. 
 
 A police dog led officers to Vasyl Krekhtyak’s body. 
 
 Ivanna Krekhtyak later told police her husband had been working in Florida, but got sick and came home to see a doctor. He was suffering from mental illness and reported hearing voices, she told police. 
 
 Her husband had left before she got up that morning, and she had been calling him all day, police said. 
 
 Vasyl Krekhtyak was buried at Oaklawn Cemetery, less then a mile down the road from the couple’s home. 
 
 Ivanna Krekhtyak, who spoke little English, was left trying to pick up the pieces of her shattered life while caring for their young daughter. 
 
 In February 2016, the daughter called police in a panic. When officers arrived, police said they found the mother in bed, asleep. 
 
 That same month police said officers returned to the home after being called by one of Krekhtyak’s coworkers. Ivanna Krekhtyak had left work around noon, crying and depressed about her husband’s suicide. At that time she told police she would get depressed, but was not suicidal, and was seeing a therapist, police said. At the time, her mother was staying with her. 
 
 The house is just a five-minute drive from the office of Outdoor Ventures, where Vasyl Krekhtyak worked as an equipment installer and his wife worked as a secretary. The couple bought the house on Barlow Road in 2011 for around $330,000, according to town records. 
 
 “We are all greatly shocked and saddened to learn of this tragedy,” said Outdoor Ventures spokesman Anthony Wellman. “We were very fond of Ivanna Krekhtyak and our thoughts and prayers are with her family and her daughter.” 
 
 Two years earlier, in 2014, a co-worker called from the office on the Post Road where Ivanna worked. She said Ivanna Krekhtyak was depressed and not completing her work, but had not made any suicidal statements. 
 
 Ivanna Krekhtyak met with police, who said she was clearly upset. She told them she was crying because her husband was away working a lot, and her daughter was in Ukraine with her grandmother. 
 
 She refused to go to the hospital, and a co-worker agreed to look after her until her husband was back. However, the report indicates that Ivanna Krekhtyak ended up going to a local hospital for evaluation.
– Ivanna Krekhtyak apparently grabbed her 8-year-old daughter's neck and squeezed until she saw no signs of life. Then the 36-year-old woman hanged herself in the basement of her home in Fairfield, Conn., police say. Sometime later, however, Krekhtyak's daughter, Anna—who had only lost consciousness—woke up. After finding her mother's body, the girl ran to a neighbor for help, reports the Connecticut Post. Authorities, who responded around 10:30am Saturday, are now trying to piece together the tragedy as Anna has "some memory issues with regard to exactly what occurred," Fairfield Police Chief Gary MacNamara tells NBC Connecticut. Despite that, he says "strangulation marks" suggest "strangulation was meant to kill her." Anna—who was listed in stable condition at a hospital Monday, per People—had previously contacted police at least once over fears her mother was suicidal, and she wasn't the only one to do so. However, police say they never felt Krekhtyak's daughter was in danger over the course of several visits to the home. During one visit, Krekhtyak told police she was depressed, but not suicidal, over her husband's suicide in July 2015. Police say Vasyl Krekhtyak, 38, had been working in Florida but returned to Connecticut to visit a doctor. Shortly after, he was found hanged in a wooded area near Fairfield University. His wife told authorities he had mental health issues and had been hearing voices, per the Fairfield Daily Voice. (A man was accused of trying to kill his son in a car crash.)