A Kyiv resident wounded in the April 18 shooting in the Holosiivskyi district has died in the hospital, Mayor Vitaly Klitschko said, bringing the death toll from the attack to seven.
Klitschko said the victim had been in critical condition and that doctors had fought for his life but were unfortunately unable to save him.
Seven people wounded in the shooting remain hospitalized, including one child. Four of the adult victims are in intensive care.
The shooting in Kyiv took place on the evening of April 18. The attacker opened fire on pedestrians before barricading himself inside a supermarket, where he was killed during a police assault. His motive remains unknown.
The attacker was a 58-year-old man born in Moscow, Ukraine’s Prosecutor General’s Office said. Media identified him as Dmitry Vasilchenkov.
He served in the motor transport troops in the Odesa region until 2005 and had been living in Bakhmut in the Donetsk region since 2017, police said. When exactly he moved to Kyiv is unclear.
Ukrainian authorities are investigating the shooting as a terrorist attack. Investigators are also looking into dereliction of duty charges against patrol officers who fled the scene during the shooting, leaving wounded people behind.
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