Interior Ministry: DNA test confirms Karavan killer's body found in Kyiv
KYIV, November 16 /UKRINFORM/. The Ukrainian Interior Ministry has received the results of a DNA examination confirming that it was Yaroslav Mazurok whose body was found in Syrets Park in Kyiv and that it was he who shot dead three security guards in the Karavan shopping center, the ministry's media liaisons department reported on Thursday.
"The Interior Ministry has received the results of a DNA examination in a criminal case on the murder of security guards in the Karavan shopping center. Samples of the material taken from Mazurok's home, from the murder scene at the shopping center, as well as samples taken from him, were analyzed. The results of the examination showed that it was he who committed this crime," reads the statement.
The ministry's media liaisons department said that "the police have currently proved that it was Mazurok who was in the Karavan shopping center and that it was he who committed this crime."
Law enforcement officers are now checking Mazurok's involvement in a number of other unsolved crimes featuring firearms.
As reported, on September 26, 2012, a customer in the Karavan shopping center shot dead three security guards and seriously wounded another one. A criminal case on the murder was opened under Part 2, Article 115 of the Criminal Code (deliberate murder).
On October 5, Ukrainian Interior Minister Vitaliy Zakharchenko said that the suspect in the killing of security guards was Yaroslav Mazurok, a native of Lviv region, born in 1974.
On October 10, Mazurok was put on the wanted list.
On November 7, a man, with Yaroslav Mazurok's passport, was found dead in Syrets Park in Kyiv. A gun was found nearby.
