Sodi

Sodi (Hindi: सोदी) was an Indian who killed five to eleven persons with a handgun on March 15, 1998, in Yamenigu, a village in Sotrensba, before being arrested.

Murders
Sodi, who supposedly had an mental illness, first began punching his pillows and burned them, a relative of Sodi, Lesa, came to see what was happening and the mental unbalanced man began threatening to kill Lesa if she did not leave, Lesa refused to leave, Sodi then grabbed a handgun that was trafficked to him and shot Lesa, who died on the scene, whereupon he shot four more relatives on his house.

Escaping from the house, he allegedly killed six more people and set fire to the bodies, however, police could not find the bodies, because they were severely burned and the ashes were hidden on a small location, on the situation Sodi attempted to drown himself on a river but it was low. The residents, seeing Sodi trying to drown himself, tried to help the man, because they thought that he was suffering from an unknown illness, whereupon police spotted Sodi being grabbed by the residents and overpowered him. Sodi was arrested and was thought to have committed the murders with a knife, however, a pistol was found on March 25, and it was concluded that the pistols was used by Sodi's hand.

Aftermath
Sodi was sentenced to death on November 6, 1998, and executed by firing squad on December 16, 1998.