Suspects Detained in Murder of 3-Year-Old Son of Deputy Sobolev (UPDATED)

Urgent investigative actions are underway.

Suspects have been detained in the murder of a 3-year-old boy during yesterday's shooting of a Range Rover belonging to deputy Sobolev. The Kyiv police press service reported this.

Law enforcement officers promise to release details soon. For now, they are communicating with the detainees.

According to Obozrevatel, the detainees are just over 20 years old and have agreed to cooperate with the investigation.

Yesterday, Sunday, December 1, at about 5:30 p.m., a black Range Rover belonging to Donetsk businessman and Kyiv Regional Council deputy Vyacheslav Sobolev was shot at in the center of Kyiv.

As a result of the shooting, the deputy's 3-year-old son Alexander was killed. The attack took place at the intersection of Tarasovskaya and Lva Tolstogo streets as Sobolev was leaving his restaurant Mario.

The outlet Strana, citing eyewitnesses, claims that Sobolev's wife Inna was in the back seat together with the son.

UPD: Strana reports that shots were fired from a hostel on Tarasovskaya Street, 4. The room was rented in the name of Strelnikov Igor Vladimirovich, born 1998, whose passport has been considered lost since November 2017. In the photo below, he leaves the hostel one minute after the shot.

The detained are born in 1999 and 2000.