The student who carried out the Czech Republic’s worst mass shooting at a university in Prague Thursday, killing at least 14 people, has been linked to the earlier killings of a father and his newborn baby — as the gunman’s disturbing online post said he “ want to kill” has appeared.
The suspect in the deadly rampage at Charles University – who has not been officially identified by Prague police but has been named in local media as 24-year-old David Kozák – has been tied to a double murder that took place on Dec. 15. nearby town of Klanovice.
A man and his 2-month-old daughter were found mercilessly shot dead in the woods.
About 250 officers have spent the past week combing the area around the scene, but no leads have been found.
However, after searching Kozak’s home, authorities said they found evidence linking him to the shocking double murder.
“We are working very seriously with the version, which is very real at the moment, that today’s attacker is also responsible for the two victims who were killed last Friday in the Klanovice forest,” Police Chief Martin Vondrasek said Thursday afternoon, without elaborating on the evidence. .
“I am convinced at this point that they were victims chosen at random by someone with no criminal record whatsoever.”
Kozák is 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 murders of a father and his baby in the woods last week. novinky.cz
Meanwhile, a Telegram channel linked to Kozák was found to contain a series of chilling Russian-language posts, in which the philosophy student talked about wanting to unleash a massacre at a school.
“I want to do a school shooting and maybe kill myself,” Kozák wrote in an entry in what he called an “online diary”, then added: “I always want to kill. I think I’ll go crazy in the future.”
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The 24-year-old was apparently inspired by two recent school shootings in Russia and wrote in awe of the perpetrators.
“When Ilznaz did the shooting, I realized that it is more profitable to commit genocide than serial murder,” Kozák said, 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. Getty Images
Kozák also praised 14-year-old Alina Afanaskina, who killed a schoolmate and wounded five others, before turning her father’s shotgun on herself, in Bryansk, Russia, earlier this month.
“It was as if she came to help me from heaven at the right time,” he wrote about Alina.
On December 17 who dated after dating also declared: “I hate the world and want to leave as much pain as possible.”
In his last message, from December 19, Kozák complained of “sounding in my ears … like some kind of king firefly. I want to rip my ears out.”
A police car was parked in front of a house where the 24-year-old father of the student who later shot dead 14 people and wounded 25 others at the Faculty of Arts at Charles University in Prague was found dead the previous day. ZUMAPRESS.com
Kozák kept his Telegram channel private until Thursday’s attack when he made it public. It has been taken down.
Czech Interior Minister Vit Rakusan said on Thursday that investigators did not believe the gunman was linked to any extremist ideology or terrorist group.
At around 3pm local time, Kozák, dressed in all black and carrying a large rifle, went up to the fourth floor of Charles University’s Faculty of Arts and opened fire, sending panicked students and faculty running for their lives.
Screenshots show a gunman pointing a gun on the balcony of Charles University in Prague Thursday.
Horrific images show people clinging to the ledges of buildings to avoid being killed during the worst mass shooting in Czech history.
As police officers approached the heavily armed man, he killed himself, said Petr Matejcek, director of the regional police headquarters in Prague.
Police said the shooter legally owned several firearms and had no prior criminal history.
The Czech government declared Saturday a national day of mourning to honor the victims, all of whom have been identified.
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