Czech police assured on Friday morning that the perpetrator of the shooting that left 14 dead and 25 injured at Charles University in Prague on Thursday had ammunition to cause an even greater massacre, and this could only be prevented by police intervention against the aggressor. , which eventually landed Suicide.
US media identified him as David K, and the identity of the shooter is expected to be clarified. David Kozak, 24 years old, probably a student at the institution. At this time the information has not been confirmed by authorities.
“Because of the amount of ammunition found, it could have been a major tragedy. “If we had not put pressure on the attacker,” he assured the press today. Petr MatejicekHead of the Prague Police.
The first officers arrived on the scene a few minutes after the gunman, a 24-year-old Czech student at the time, started shooting.
The officers were already there. Searching for the suspect for hours after they found his father’s body in his home in the town of Hostouň, 35 kilometers from Prague, Radio Prague reports.
In total, more than 220 police officers took part in the police operation, Matejicek said.
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The attacker entered the Faculty of Arts building and fired randomly, causing the massacre.
He then left the roof of the university building in the heart of Prague and started shooting at passers-by in the street.
The officers then besieged the attacker who had a weapons permit. He committed suicide with a short-range rifle.
Police declined to provide information on the type of weapon or ammunition used in the massacre, the worst in decades in the central European country.
According to witness accounts, the attacker’s presence in the university building caused dramatic scenes, such as the image of people going to the edges and jumping to a terrace on the ground floor.
Among the fatalities is Lenka Hlavkov, director of the Institute of Musicology at Charles University in Prague, the oldest in Central Europe.
There were also students who built barricades at the doors of their classrooms to prevent the intruder from entering.
In addition, the perpetrator of yesterday’s massacre appears to have been responsible for another double murder of a 32-year-old father and his one-month-old baby on December 15 in a forest near Prague.
Source: La Neta Neta
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