2012 Karavan mall shooting
| 2012 Karavan mall shooting | |
|---|---|
| Location | Karavan Kyiv, Ukraine |
| Date | 26 September 2012 |
Attack type | Triple-murder and mass shooting |
| Weapon | IZH-79 |
| Deaths | 3 |
| Injured | 1 |
| Perpetrator | Yaroslav Mazurok |
On 26 September 2012, a mass shooting took place at Karavan mall in Kyiv, Ukraine.[1][2]
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 CCTV cameras.[3][4]
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.[3]
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.