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Nicolai Itchenko

Nicolai Itchenko (3 December 1966 – 2014), also known as Teddy Rensen, was a Russian former Spetsnaz operative turned Russian Mafia enforcer who worked for Vladimir Pushkin. In 2014, he was killed by the vigilante Robert McCall after taking several of McCall's coworkers hostage at a Home Mart hardware store in Boston, Massachusetts.

Biography[]

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Itchenko as a Spetsnaz operative.

Nicolai Itchenko was born in the Russian SFSR of the Soviet Union on 3 December 1966. He was a violence-prone youth before a Russian scholar and humanitarian took in Itchenko when he was twelve years old; he was treated as the humanitarian's sixth son. He continued to struggle in school, get into fights, and even steal from his adoptive family, but his adoptive father loved him until his father and mother were killed by armed intruders who stole trivial items from their home; Itchenko was suspected of being the murderer, as he feared that his adoptive parents would eventually throw him out when they saw that he was no good. Itchenko was sent back into the same hellish system he had escaped as a result. He was trained as a Spetsnaz operative, also running a wing of the secret police. He went private following the Dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, becoming a brutal enforcer for the oligarch Vladimir Pushkin. While in the United States, Itchenko adopted the alias of "Teddy Rensen", as he was able to speak fluent English.

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Itchenko's body.

In 2014, Itchenko was ordered to find and kill the person responsible for the murders of the pimp Slavi Kosma and his associates in Boston, Massachusetts, and he did so with the help of corrupt policemen Frank Masters, Stephen Remar, and Chris Pedersen. He killed the Irish Mob boss John Looney for disrespecting him while Itchenko questioned him, before finding out from the prostitute Alina Yesipova's friend Mandy that Alina had been visited in the hospital by a Black man on the night of her hospitalization. Itchenko then choked Mandy to death before tracking down McCall, visiting him at his home and posing as a policeman to gather information. However, McCall saw through Itchenko's charade, and Itchenko's attempt to have McCall kidnapped for interrogation at a Boston diner fained, and McCall was able to take photographs of Itchenko from his phone and send them to his former DIA colleague Susan Plummer, who revealed Itchenko's identity. Itchenko's efforts to kill McCall were unsuccessful, and McCall instead destroyed Pushkin's operations on the East Coast, forcing Itchenko to assemble an elite hit squad to take down McCall. Itchenko rejected McCall's offer of mercy and instead took McCall's coworkers hostage at a Home Mart hardware store, aiming to lure McCall into a trap. However, McCall stealthily dispatched Itchenko's associates before confronting Itchenko in the dark as fire sprinklers went off. McCall shot Itchenko several times before finishing him off with a gunshot to the neck, putting an end to the brutal murderer.

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