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The Kyiv police are receiving calls from city residents regarding the shooting at the Karavan shopping mall, Head of the Public Liaisons Department of the Interior Ministry of Ukraine Volodymyr Polischuk has said.

“The Kyiv police have received eight calls [from Kyiv residents] saying that they know the gunman and that he looks like another man. We
are checking this information,” he said in an interview with Chanel 5 on
Thursday, September 27, in the evening.

According to Polischuk, the name of the man Ukrainian Interior
Minister Vitaliy Zakharchenko was talking about on Thursday in the
morning could be announced for sure only when the criminal is arrested
and necessary checks are accomplished.

He also assumed that the gunman could have had reasons for not wanting to meet with law enforcers.

“Probably, the man was afraid of meeting police officers. The
security guards of the supermarket should not have held any searches and
asked him to turn out his pockets, they should have called the police
immediately,” he said.

“That man might have problems with the law and his gun could have been used in some other crimes,” Polischuk said.

As reported, the robber shot dead three employees of a private
security firm and seriously wounded another one in the Karavan shopping
mall in Kyiv on September 26. One of the security guards saw a visitor
stealing a USB flash drive from a glass case. The guard asked the man to
go to the back room, where other guards were waiting. In the room the
man pulled out a gun and started shooting, killing three security guards
on the spot and seriously wounding a fourth one. The attacker then fled
the scene.

The Obolon District Police Office has opened a criminal case on the incident.

Executive Director of Karavan Serhiy Kyslenko promised Hr 100,000 for assistance in finding the criminal.