According to the latest count, there are 15 victims of David Kozak's moments of madness. The 24-year-old Czech yesterday climbed onto the roof of the Philosophy faculty of the University of Prague and started shooting wildly. Finally he committed suicide or, perhaps, the agents were eliminated.
Shortly before the massacre he had killed his father in the Kladno area, about thirty kilometers from the capital. “There is no indication that this crime has any connection with international terrorism,” said Czech Interior Minister Vit Rakusan, trying in some way to reassure people shocked by what politicians and observers define as the most serious tragedy of the history of the Czech Republic.
«Let me introduce myself, my name is David and I want to carry out a school shooting and possibly commit suicide... – the killer wrote in a sort of diary on Telegram – I have always wanted to kill, I thought I would become a maniac in the future» but «I realized that it was much more convenient to carry out a mass massacre instead of being a serial killer." Also on social media he said he was inspired by Alina Afanaskina, a 14-year-old Russian girl who shot a classmate at the beginning of December, injured five other people and then shot herself. Another episode is also a source of inspiration: the school shooting in Kazan, Tatarstan, in May 2021 when nine people were killed, including seven students, and more than 20 injured.
“I hate the world and I want to leave as much pain as possible” was a message from a few days ago.
Kozak had carefully planned the massacre. The carnage began in the morning with the discovery, at 12.40, of the father's lifeless body in his house about thirty kilometers from Prague. The police, on alert, evacuated a university building where at 2 pm the suspect was supposed to go for a lesson. But Kozak, who had packed many weapons inside the university, mocked the officers by going to another building where he opened fire which caused the massacre. On the ground, 15 dead and over 20 injured, a dozen of whom are in serious condition. At 3.20pm, the police chief said, the murderer's body was found on the ledge of the building. It is unclear whether he committed suicide or was killed by officers.
Police are working to understand whether the university shooter was also responsible for the deaths of two people last week in the Klanovicky forest near Prague.
(Unioneonline/ss)