Karavan shooting

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.

The case stunned Ukraine, soon becoming one of the most infamous incidents of gun crime since Ukrainian independence (1991). Accused shooter 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.