Kazakhstan Embassy in US identified Kazakh shot dead by US policeman

Kazakhstan Embassy in US is working with the US police to find out circumstances of Kirill Denyakin’s death in Portsmouth, Foreign Ministry’s official representative Askar Abdrakhmanov told Tengrinews.kz reports. Abdrakhmanov said that Kazakh Embassy in US is now dealing with everything related to the incident, including the delivery of the body to Kazakhstan. Kirill Denyakin, the young man from Kazakhstan, was a cook from the Renaissance Portsmouth Hotel in Virginia. He worked there for two years. He was killed in the house where his friend, also a cook, lived. Police says that Portsmouth Police Officers were dispatched over a report of burglary. There they saw a man banging on the door. When the unarmed man moved in the police officer’s direction the officer shot him dead. The number of times the policeman pulled the trigger is still not confirmed, but one of the whiteness heard 6 shots. “He is not a burglar. He is a friend,” Maurice Wilson, Kirill’s cook-friend confirmed. The police department refuses to identify the name of the officer, but confirms that investigation is in process and the Officer is on administrative leave. Initially Kirill's friends identified him as Kirill Suchin, but later the Embassy confirmed the his surname was Denyakin.