Kyiv shooting investigated as terrorist attack: parents of wounded boy among those killed

Investigators are treating the killing of civilians in Kyiv as a terrorist attack that resulted in fatalities.

Source: Ruslan Kravchenko, Prosecutor General of Ukraine

Quote: "A criminal investigation has been launched into the shooting of civilians and the hostage-taking in the Holosiivskyi district of the capital under Article 258.3 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine – a terrorist attack that resulted in fatalities."

Details: Kravchenko also reported that the father and mother of an 11-year-old boy who is currently in hospital were killed as a result of the attacker's actions.

"As a result of the attack, six people were killed. Among them were a man who died at the scene and a woman who died in hospital from her injuries. Their son, aged about 11, is in a children's medical facility with a gunshot wound and is receiving the necessary treatment," the prosecutor said.

The shooter has been identified as a 58-year-old man who used a legally registered firearm.

The pre-trial investigation is being conducted under the procedural supervision of the Kyiv City Prosecutor's Office. In cooperation with the Security Service of Ukraine and the National Police of Ukraine, all necessary measures are being taken to establish the circumstances of the crime and its motives, Kravchenko added.

Previously: Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko reported that the death toll from the shooting in Kyiv's Holosiivskyi district had risen to six, while nine injured people were hospitalised and six others received assistance at the scene, including a four-month-old baby.

Background:

• On 18 April, a man opened fire in Kyiv's Holosiivskyi district, killing and injuring people. Police conducted a special operation to detain the attacker.
• The man who carried out the fatal shooting was later killed during the operation to arrest him.
• According to Ukrainska Pravda sources, his name was Dmytro Vasylchenkov and he was born on 21 April 1968 in Moscow. He held Ukrainian citizenship and had previously lived in Bakhmut, Donetsk Oblast, before moving to Kyiv's Holosiivskyi district.
• Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko confirmed that the shooter was a 58-year-old Moscow-born man.
• Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said the shooter used a registered weapon during the attack.

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