KIEV, Oct. 9 – The killer who shot dead three security guards in the Karavan shopping center in Kiev was mentally prepared to commit this crime, Interior Minister Vitaliy Zakharchenko said.

"You see that the mental and psychological state of the man was such that the man was ready to start shooting... The man was mentally prepared to do it," he said in an interview with TSN (Television News Service, 1+1 TV Channel), part of which was published on the channel's Web site on Tuesday.