 In total 215 inhabitants were killed, including 51 children; later, on 4 January 1942, 30 of them were shot on the market square in Rēzekne; the others in the Ančupāni hills.The Latvian police commander who organized and carried out the massacre, one Boleslavs Maikovskis, was recruited by the US Central Intelligence Agency at the end of World War II to work for the US Government's operations against the Soviet Union.He was later allowed to emigrate to the United States via the CIA's "rat line", which assisted hundreds of wanted World War II war criminals in escaping justice at the hands of a war crimes tribunal.