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A 42-year-old Kyiv resident, Oleksii Kovalskyi, is suspected in the shooting at the Pechersk Territorial Recruitment Center and Service Point (TCC and SP). According to the investigation, on 19 October he opened fire on police officers and servicemen of the TCC, resulting in six people being injured.
According to lawyer Serhii Osyka, at the hearing on Kovalskyi’s pretrial measure he was brought in a wheelchair: he had been badly beaten and did not understand what was happening. The Communications Department of the Office of the Prosecutor General said the man suffered bodily injuries during his arrest because he resisted.
This was reported by Slidstvo.Info.
According to the Office of the Prosecutor General, on 19 October a shooting occurred inside the Pechersk TCC and SP, as a result of which three police officers and three servicemen of the TCC were wounded.
According to Slidstvo.Info’s sources, suspicion of committing the crime was brought against Oleksii Kovalskyi. On the day the pretrial measure was chosen he turned 42 years old. He was born and lives in Kyiv. Officially unemployed. In one of the phone contact lists Kovalskyi’s number is saved as “Bought a rifle.”
According to lawyer Serhii Osyka, who spoke with a Slidstvo.Info reporter, at around 18:30 on Lesia Ukrainka Boulevard Kovalskyi was stopped by three police officers and one TCC serviceman. They were carrying out citizen notification measures and discovered that the man was wanted.
Kovalskyi was taken to the nearest TCC and SP, which turned out to be Pechersk. At that time three other servicemen were in the building.
There, according to the investigation’s version, Kovalskyi took out a SIG Sauer P320 pistol of caliber 9 mm and, “on the basis of suddenly arisen hostile relations,” fired at least 7 shots at police officers and TCC servicemen.
Then, according to Osyka, the senior operative officer of the criminal police sector together with a serviceman ran up to Kovalskyi, knocked him to the ground, and put him in handcuffs. The man managed to wound three police officers and three servicemen.
One TCC serviceman received grazing wounds to the neck and chest, the second a grazing wound to the left lumbar area, and the third a shoulder wound.
The senior inspector of the prevention department of the Pechersk division of the Main Directorate of the National Police in Kyiv sustained a through gunshot wound to the right side of the chest, the operative officer of the anti-fraud sector a gunshot wound to the left pelvic area, and the head of the prevention department a gunshot wound to the posterior surface of the right shoulder.
All were given medical assistance and taken to hospitals. In a comment to the Slidstvo.Info reporter, Kyiv police said three wounded officers are currently receiving inpatient treatment.
Kovalskyi’s pistol, from which he fired and for which he had no permit, and 14 rounds of ammunition of caliber 9 mm were seized from him. According to the prosecutor’s office, during a search of the man’s residence law enforcement officers found assault rifles, smoothbore and rifled firearms, ammunition of various calibers, and a combat hand grenade.
Kovalskyi’s lawyer said that on 21 October the Shevchenkivskyi District Court of Kyiv chose pretrial detention without the possibility of bail for his client. As Osyka claims, during the hearing the man “did not understand what was happening.”
“The client himself was unconscious. They brought him in on a wheelchair because he was completely beaten. They brought him in beaten and took him away beaten. He didn’t understand what was happening at all,” the lawyer said.
He emphasized that after the hearing Kovalskyi was immediately taken to Kyiv City Clinical Emergency Hospital.
The Communications Department of the Office of the Prosecutor General told Slidstvo.Info that the suspect is already being transferred from the hospital to the temporary detention facility, and his life and health are not in danger.
“During the arrest in the TCC premises he resisted and as a result received bodily injuries. These facts will be examined during the pretrial investigation,” the OPG Communications Department noted.
Kovalskyi’s pretrial measure was chosen by the “Maidan judge” Andrii Trubnikov. In 2013 he sent Revolution of Dignity participant Valerii Kadura to custody. According to the investigation, the man, together with other protesters near the Presidential Administration building, allegedly ran over law enforcement officers with a bulldozer.
In addition, Trubnikov stripped two drivers of their driving rights for participating in a trip to Viktor Yanukovych’s Mezhyhiria on 30 November 2013.
The judge of the Shevchenkivskyi District Court of Kyiv was not dismissed for decisions made against protest participants because the time limits for bringing disciplinary charges had expired.
Oleksii Kovalskyi is suspected of attempted intentional murder as completed, an attack on the lives of law enforcement officers, and illegal handling of weapons. He faces life imprisonment.
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