{"id":613100,"date":"2026-04-18T20:47:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T20:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/613100\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T20:47:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T20:47:07","slug":"ukraine-police-shoot-dead-gunman-who-killed-six-in-kyiv-took-hostages-gun-violence-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/613100\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine police shoot dead gunman who killed six in Kyiv, took hostages | Gun Violence News"},"content":{"rendered":"

The attacker has been identified as a \u201c58-year-old Moscow man\u201d, but no motive has been established.<\/p>\n

By Al Jazeera staff and AP<\/p>\n

Published On 18 Apr 202618 Apr 2026<\/p>\n

A gunman who killed at least six people in Kyiv and took hostages has been shot dead by Ukrainian police, officials said.<\/p>\n

The attack occurred on Saturday in the capital\u2019s Holosiivskyi district, where the assailant opened fire on civilians in the street before barricading himself inside a nearby supermarket, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said on Telegram.<\/p>\n

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Special tactical police units stormed the supermarket after roughly 40 minutes of failed negotiations, Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said on Telegram. The gunman shot at police officers during the standoff.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe tried to persuade him, knowing that there was likely a wounded person inside,\u201d Klymenko told The Associated Press news agency. \u201cWe even offered to bring in tourniquets to stop the bleeding, but he did not respond.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ultimately, authorities were given the order to \u201cneutralise\u201d the attacker, he said.<\/p>\n

At least 10 others were hospitalised, including one child, and four hostages were rescued, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a post on X.<\/p>\n

\"SpecialSpecial Forces Police Unit evacuate a hostage at the site of a shooting incident, in Kyiv, Ukraine, April 18, 2026 [Reuters]<\/p>\n

Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko said the attacker was a 58-year-old born in Moscow.<\/p>\n

Klymenko said the man was carrying a legally registered gun and had approached licensing authorities as recently as December 2025 to renew his weapons permit, submitting a valid medical certificate at the time. He added that investigators would determine which medical institution issued the document.<\/p>\n

Zelenskyy offered his condolences to the families of the victims, saying he had instructed officials to make all verified information publicly available. \u201cWe expect a swift investigation,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The attacker has been identified as a \u201c58-year-old Moscow man\u201d, but no motive has been established. By Al…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":613101,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3456,24965,43,44,41,39,42,40,10612],"class_list":{"0":"post-613100","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-europe","9":"tag-gun-violence","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-top-news","13":"tag-top-stories","14":"tag-topnews","15":"tag-topstories","16":"tag-ukraine"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=613100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}