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Czech police share timeline of university shooting events in Prague

22 December 2023 18:16 (UTC +04:00)

Czech police have shared a detailed timeline of yesterday’s deadly shooting, APA reports citing The Guardian.

At 12:26 Police received information from a friend of the shooter who received a “suicide SMS” from him. At 12:47 Police found a dead man in the shooter’s house and a few minutes later determined it was his father. At 13:15 Police announced a nationwide search for the suspect. At 13:49 Police determined that the shooter could be heading to one of the university campuses. At 14:22 Police started an evacuation of one campus. At 14:59 Shooting starts at a nearby campus. First police officers arrive minutes later. At 15:11 Shooter was on the roof. At 15:20 Shooter dies by suicide. He shot himself using his rifle.

The authorities are also investigating the shooter’s possible link to a separate incident: a murder last week of a father and his baby in the Klanovice forest. Prague police are “still waiting for official ballistic test results” regarding the incident.

The shooter had a licence for eight weapons, two of which were long-range. It is still unclear how many of them he brought to the university building, police said.

Note that at least 14 people were killed and 25 wounded in Thursday’s shooting at the Philosophy Department of the Charles University in Prague.