A twenty-four years old Prague student David K.,, who killed 14 people on Thursday at the Faculty of Philosophy in that city, and eventually himself, is most likely the culprit for the so far unexplained murder of a Czech and his baby.
The head of the Czech police, Martin Vondrašek, said today that a man and a baby were killed a week ago, in the forest, in the Prague district of Klanovice, and that D.K. most likely chose them at random.
“In the shooting at the Faculty of Philosophy in Prague, 14 people were killed, 25 were injured, 10 of them seriously. I was now at the scene of that terrible crime and I saw a large arsenal of weapons and ammunition in the faculty building. If the police had not intervened quickly, there would have been more victims. many more, several dozen,” he said.
According to current knowledge, 24-year-old David K., a history student, first killed his father in the village of Hustounj near Prague, and then wrote on the Telegram social network that he was planning a massacre and suicide.
The police investigated whether the profile from which D.K. wrote on Telegram, started a search for him and evacuated the secondary building of the faculty where he was supposed to give a lecture.
However, David, who had never caused trouble or come into conflict with the law and had a gun permit, opened fire on the fourth floor of the main building of the Faculty of Philosophy in the tourist center of Prague.
The Minister of the Interior, Vit Rakušan, at a press conference with the police chief, appealed to the Czechs not to spread misinformation about the tragedy and warned that false news had already appeared that the killer was Ukrainian.
After the massacre at the Faculty of Philosophy, Charles University in Prague canceled all gatherings, increased security measures, and a meeting with the Minister of Education Mikulas Bek was scheduled for January 3 to decide what stricter measures the universities will introduce to prevent similar tragedies.
Students who knew David K. claim that he was a quiet, inconspicuous young man, who did not socialize much with others and who was a good student at the history department. The police found no previous problems of his with the law and he was legally licensed to carry a variety of firearms, not just the rifle he used to commit the crime.
The attacker was allegedly inspired by a 14-year-old Russian girl who carried out a similar attack earlier this month.
Kozak was a history student who had excellent results at university. He graduated in European history, and continued his master’s studies in which he focused on the history of Poland.
How well his studies went is evidenced by the award of the Polish Institute in Prague, which he received in May for the work “Problems of the Antagonism of the Galician Peasant and Krakow Uprising of 1846”.
At the same time, the twenty-four-year-old was suffering from mental problems, and perverted thoughts were running through his head. He wanted to kill, and judging by the message he left behind on the Telegram social network, he thought about everything for a long time.
“Let me introduce myself. I’m David. I want to commit a school shooting and maybe suicide. Alina Afaskinova really helped me a lot,” Kozak wrote on Telegram.
He referred to the case of December 7, when a 14-year-old girl killed two students, wounded five of them, and then committed suicide at a gymnasium in Bryansk, Russia.
“I always wanted to kill, I thought I’d be a maniac. Then I realized that mass murder is much more profitable than serial murder. Like I said… I waited… I dreamed… I wanted… But Alina was the last push. It was as if she came down from heaven to help me,” wrote Kozak and added that he hates the world and wants to cause as much pain as possible.
Kozak wrote on Telegram that he wanted to close his account, but then he read that it would be best to write this message a few hours before the shooting. However, police are still checking this account to see if it really belonged to the attacker.
He had an entire arsenal at his disposal, the police found short-barreled and long-barreled weapons, as well as explosives, Klix.ba reports.
