2012 Karavan mall shooting
| 2012 Karavan mall shooting | |
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| Location | Karavan Kyiv, Ukraine |
| Date | 26 September 2012 |
Attack type | Triple-murder and mass shooting |
| Weapon | IZH-79 |
| Deaths | 3 |
| Injuries | 1 |
| Perpetrator | Yaroslav Mazurok |
On 26 September 2012, a mass shooting took place at Karavan Shopping Mall mall in Kyiv, Ukraine.
Events
The incident saw suspect Yaroslav Mazurok supposedly taken to the back room of the Karavan Shopping Mall by security guards. At this point, he produced a gun and shot dead three of the security guards, seriously injuring a fourth, before escaping. The entire incident was captured on the mall's closed-circuit television cameras (CCTV camera).
The case become one of the most infamous incidents of gun crime since Ukrainian independence (1991). Mazurok then apparently went on the run for over a month, before his body was found in the woods near Kyiv's Dorohozhychi metro station. The police reported him as being an illegal gunsmith, and a trained assassin, however his family protested his innocence, with his wife claiming he was a labourer, and had been framed.
References
- ↑ "BBC News - Man shoots dead three guards at Ukraine supermarket". BBC News. 26 September 2012. Retrieved 13 December 2014.
- ↑ "Ukraine's Karavan killer suspect found dead". English pravda.ru. 12 November 2012. Retrieved 13 December 2014.
- 1 2 Phillips, Graham (2012-11-09). "Suspected Karavan killer found dead - Nov. 09, 2012". Kyiv Post. Retrieved 2025-12-29.
- ↑ Interfax-Ukraine (2012-10-09). "Interior minister: Karavan shooter was mentally prepared to kill - Oct. 09, 2012". Kyiv Post. Retrieved 2025-12-29.
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