Global Information2023 Prague shootings information
| 2023 Prague shootings | |
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 Faculty of Arts, Charles University and Mánes Bridge, the sites of the shooting | |
  2023 Prague shootings (Prague city centre) | |
| Location | Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic |
| Coordinates | 50°05′21″N 14°24′58″E / 50.08917°N 14.41611°E |
| Date | 15 December 2023
21 December 2023 14:59 – 15:20 (CET, UTC+1) |
Attack type | School shooting, mass shooting, mass murder, spree shooting, murder–suicide, patricide |
| Weapon | Inside: Glock pistol, Škorpion pistol[1] Rooftop: ZEV-30 rifle[2][3] |
| Deaths | 18 (including the perpetrator)[a][b][4] |
| Injured | 25 |
| Perpetrator | David Kozák[5][6] |
On 21 December 2023, fourteen people were killed and 22 injured in a mass shooting by a postgraduate history student within the main Faculty of Arts building of Charles University in central Prague, Czech Republic. Another three people were injured when the perpetrator opened fire towards the streets from the faculty's fourth-floor rooftop terrace.[7][8][9][10][11][12] After having been engaged by the police, the 24-year-old perpetrator killed himself.[13][14][15] Before the attack, his father was found dead at his home in Hostouň.
At the time of the shooting, the perpetrator was one in a pool of about 4,000 suspects in a double murder case that took place six days earlier, 25 kilometres (16 mi) away, in the Klánovice Forest. The lead investigator confirmed that the police had not yet reviewed the perpetrator's potential as a suspect in the earlier killings when the Prague shootings took place, but evidence found in the latter event did link the two incidents.
The attack was the deadliest mass murder in the Czech Republic since its independence in 1993, surpassing the 2020 Bohumín arson attack.[16][17][18]
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