The student who carried out the Czech Republic’s worst mass shooting ever at a Prague university on Thursday, killing at least 14 people, has been linked to the earlier murders of a father and his newborn baby, as they say the gunman’s disturbing online posts: “I wanted to kill.”
The suspect in the fatal shooting at Charles University, who has not been formally identified by Prague police but was identified in local media as David Kozák, 24, has been linked to a double homicide that occurred on December 15 at the Prague city. nearby town of Klanovice.
A man and his two-month-old daughter were found mercilessly shot to death in the forest.
About 250 officers had spent the past week scouring the area around the crime scene, but no clues were found.
However, after a search of Kozak’s home, authorities said they found evidence linking him to the shocking double murder.
“We are working very seriously with the version, which at this moment is very real, that today’s attacker is also responsible for the two victims killed last Friday in the Klanovice forest,” the head of police officer Martin Vondrasek, without giving more details about the evidence.
“At this point I am convinced that these are victims selected completely randomly by a person without any type of criminal record.”
Kozák was also believed to have killed his own father in his hometown of Hostoun, before going on a bloody rampage at his university.
Prague mass shooting suspect David Kozák has been linked to the murder of a father and his baby in a forest last week. novinky.cz
Meanwhile, a Telegram channel associated with Kozák was discovered to contain a series of chilling writings in Russian, in which the philosophy student spoke of wanting to unleash a massacre at a school.
“I want to shoot up the school and possibly kill myself,” Kozák wrote in an entry in what he called his online “diary,” later adding: “I always wanted to kill. I thought I would become a maniac in the future.”
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The 24-year-old was apparently inspired by two recent school shootings in Russia and wrote admiringly about their perpetrators.
“When Ilznaz shot, I realized that it was much more profitable to commit mass murder than serial murder,” Kozák reflected, apparently referring to 19-year-old Ilznaz Galyaviev, who killed nine people at his former school in Kazan, Russia. . in 2021.
People lay flowers outside the site of the mass shooting. fake images
Kozák also praised 14-year-old Alina Afanaskina, who killed a schoolmate and wounded five others before turning the gun on herself with her father’s shotgun in Bryansk, Russia, earlier this month.
“It was as if she had come to my aid from heaven just in time,” he wrote of Alina.
A post-December 17 document also stated: “I hate the world and want to leave behind as much pain as possible.”
In his final message, dated December 19, Kozák complained of having “a ringing in his ears… like some kind of damn fireflies. He wanted to rip off my ears.”
A police car sits in front of a house where the father of a 24-year-old student who later shot dead 14 people and wounded 25 others at the Charles University Faculty of Arts in Prague was found dead the day before. ZUMAPRESS.com
Kozák kept his Telegram channel private until just before Thursday’s attack, when he made it public. He has since been retired.
Czech Interior Minister Vit Rakusan said Thursday that investigators did not believe the attacker was linked to any extremist ideology or terrorist group.
Around 3 p.m. local time, Kozák, dressed all in black and carrying a large rifle, went up to the fourth floor of the Charles University Faculty of Arts and opened fire, causing students and professors to flee in terror to save their lives. lives.
A screenshot shows what appears to be the gunman pointing his rifle on the balcony of Charles University in Prague on Thursday.
Heartbreaking images showed people clinging to the ledge of a building to avoid being killed during the worst mass shooting in Czech history.
When police officers approached the heavily armed attacker, he committed suicide, said Petr Matejcek, director of the regional police headquarters in Prague.
Police said the shooter legally owned several weapons and had no criminal record.
The Czech government declared Saturday a day of national mourning in honor of the victims, all of whom have been identified.
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Source: vtt.edu.vn