More than 200 examinations have been scheduled and are conducted in the frames of a criminal case opened into the killing of security guards of the Karavan shopping mall in Kyiv, and the investigation into the case continues.
“The investigation of the criminal case into the murder of three security guards of the Karavan shopping mall and the attempted murder of another continues. Over 200 examinations will be held as part of the criminal case, including forensic, medical, molecular-genetic, ballistic, fingerprint identification etc.,” the Public Relations Department of the Interior Ministry of Ukraine reported on Wednesday.
The police said that molecular-genetic examination confirmed that the genetic material found on the items on the murder scene is identical to that taken from those of Mazurok’s personal belongings found in his place of residence.
According to the fingerprint identification, Mazurok’s fingerprints are identical to those found on the murder scene in the shopping mall.
On September 26, a robber shot dead three employees of a private security firm and seriously wounded another one in the Karavan shopping mall in Kyiv. The attacker fled the scene.
On October 5, Ukrainian Interior Minister Vitaliy Zakharchenko stated that the killer of three security guards from the Karavan shopping mall in Kyiv was Yaroslav Mazurok, a native of Lviv region, born in 1974, who previously worked at private security firms.
The body of a man resembling Yaroslav Mazurok, the suspect in the murder of guards at a Karavan shopping center, was found in Kyiv on November 7.
According to the ministry, law enforcers found in a pocket of the deceased man the passport of Yaroslav Mazurok, a technical certificate for a Jawa motorbike, as well as Mazurok’s a driver’s license and identification certificate. The police also found a gun with one spent cartridge in the cylinder.
On November 15, DNA examination has confirmed that it was Yaroslav Mazurok, whose body was found not far from Syrets Park in Kyiv.
On November 28, the chief of the main investigation department of the Interior Ministry of Ukraine, Vasyl Farynnyk, said that the body of Mazurok has not yet been shown to the guard who survived the attack, Pavlo Fedenkov, for identification. He said that the injured guard, however, had recognized Mazurok’s photograph
