Karavan shooting
2012 gun crime in Ukraine
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The 2012 Karavan shooting was a notable gun crime which took place in Ukraine's capital of Kyiv on September 26, 2012.[1][2]
| 2012 Karavan shooting | |
|---|---|
Location of Kyiv in Ukraine | |
| Location | Kyiv, Ukraine |
| Date | 26 September 2012 |
Attack type | Triple-murder and mass shooting |
| Weapon | IZH-79 |
| Deaths | 3 |
| Injured | 1 |
| Perpetrators | Yaroslav Mazurok |
Events
The incident saw suspect Yaroslav Mazurok (or Mazurka) 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.[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]
