Crime and Punishment: Murder Scene

I'm reading Crime and Punishment. I'm at the point where Raskolnikov viciously murders the old woman (the pawnbroker). I don't think I've read such a violent scene since the murder scene in Richard Wright's Native Son. In fact, reading this scene and all of Raskolnikov's inner stream of thoughts recalls to my mind the similar stream of thoughts of Bigger. I wonder if Richard Wright read Crime and Punishment and was influenced by it.