Mass Shooting In The Czech Republic Leaves 16 People Dead

A mass shooting at Charles University, in Prague, Czech Republic, left 16 people dead, including the perpetrator. The incident is the deadliest mass shooting in the Czech Republic since dissolution of Czechoslovakia in 1993.

According to police, the suspect was possibly responsible for the murders of a 32-year-old father and his infant in a stroller in a Klánovice forest on 15 December. The search operation for those murders, during which hundreds of police officers searched the entire forest, ended on 20 December without a suspect being found.

According to an Interpol officer, the shooter killed his father in their family home in Hostouň, Kladno District, the same day as the school shooting. Police later searched the shooter’s residence, where they reportedly found explosives and other firearms.

Authorities had discovered a large arsenal of weapons earlier that day at a downtown Prague Charles University building and were also tipped off that the shooter was on its way to Prague to take his own life. Shortly after that, the shooter’s father was found dead.

At 2pm local time, police evacuated a building at Charles University on Celetná street where the suspect was scheduled to attend a lecture. At 14:59, police received first reports of the shooting at a different building, with reports of shots coming from the roof of the faculty of arts building of the university.

According to Pavel Nedoma, director of the nearby Rudolfinum Gallery, a man was seen on a balcony firing toward the Mánes Bridge, over the Vltava River. At 15:20, the police found the shooter dead. A police officer with Interpol Prague said that the perpetrator was 24-year-old world history student from the city of Kladno.

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