Roman Tochin
44, builder,
Khodoriv, Lviv region
Roman Tochin died on February 20 due to a gunshot wound in the head. Together with another Roman—Roman Tityk—he was heading for Instytutska street to take the wounded protesters away from there. Both Romans were hit by sniper’s bullets. The bullet spared Roman Tityk. But it killed Roman Tochin. “At the moment when dad was killed he was kneeling over the wounded Tityk trying to protect him by a shield,” says Roman’s daughter Alexandra.
Roman Tochin came to the Maidan on December 1—after the security forces had brutally beaten the students. “Since then he came home only once—when he fell ill. He spent five days at home, took some treatment and as soon as he got better—he was off to the Maidan. He wouldn’t stay home at such a time. We haven’
