The Kyiv police are receiving calls from city residents regarding the shooting at the Karavan shopping mall, Head of the Public Liaisons Department of the Interior Ministry of Ukraine Volodymyr Polischuk has said.

"The Kyiv police have received eight calls [from Kyiv residents] saying that they know the gunman and that he looks like another man. We are checking this information," he said in an interview with Channel 5 on Thursday, September 27, in the evening.

According to Polischuk, the name of the man Ukrainian Interior Minister Vitaliy Zakharchenko was talking about on Thursday in the morning could be announced for sure only when the criminal is arrested and necessary checks are accomplished.

He also assumed that the gunman could have had reasons for not wanting to meet with law enforcers.

"Probably, the man was afraid of meeting police officers. The security guards of the supermarket should not have held any searches and asked him to turn out his pockets, they should have called the police immediately," he said.

"That man might have problems with the law and his gun could have been used in some other crimes," Polischuk said.

As reported, the robber shot dead three employees of a private security firm and seriously wounded another one in the Karavan shopping mall in Kyiv on September 26. One of the security guards saw a visitor stealing a USB flash drive from a glass case. The guard asked the man to go to the back room, where other guards were waiting. In the room the man pulled out a gun and started shooting, killing three security guards on the spot and seriously wounding a fourth one. The attacker then fled the scene.

The Obolon District Police Office has opened a criminal case on the incident.

Executive Director of Karavan Serhiy Kyslenko promised UAH 100,000 for assistance in finding the criminal.