Georgian Interior Ministry official Shota Utiashvili earlier said the shots had come from the vicinity of a Russian roadblock outside the village Kareleti, near the border with South Ossetia, and Georgian police accused Russia of hindering the investigation into the killing.
Vladimir Ivanov, an aide to the commander of the Joint Peacekeeping Forces in the Georgian-South Ossetian conflict zone, said the chief of police in the Gori region had arrived in on Thursday morning at the Russian roadblock.
"According to him, as a result of firing on a police post situated 300 meters south of the Russian peacekeeping checkpoint, a Georgian Interior Ministry officer was killed. According to a police representative, the shots were fired using rifles from a house situated to the southwest of the peacekeeping forces checkpoint at a distance of about 150 meters," he said.
Ivanov said Russian peacekeepers and Georgian police surrounded the house and inspected it, but found no evidence that armed people had been in the building or that shots had been fired.
A top Russian military officer said on Wednesday that the Georgian Foreign Ministry's implication that Russian peacekeepers opened fire on the Georgian police post was a poorly-staged provocation.
The Georgian Ministry had said the killing proved Russia was not fulfilling its obligations under a ceasefire agreement between Russia and Georgia.
Marat Kulakhmetov, the commander of the Russian peacekeeping contingent in South Ossetia, said it would have been impossible to attack the post from the specified building with small arms due to the peculiarities of the location.
Kareleti is located in the buffer zone where Russia has maintained a security presence since the five-day conflict with Georgia, which began on August 8 with Tbilisi's artillery attack on South Ossetia.
Russia pledged on Monday to pull all remaining forces out of buffer zone within a month, on the condition that the country's leadership takes on a legally binding commitment not to use force against South Ossetia and Abkhazia, rebel regions that have both been recognized as independent by Russia.
