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A gunman in Prague who killed 14 people and injured more than 20 others is suspected of having also murdered two people in a forest last week.
Police chiefs said the 24-year-old, a student at Charles University where he opened fire, legally owned weapons and had killed his own father earlier in the day.
As the shooting began, crowds of people fled the scene, and eight students perched on a ledge high up outdoors, hiding in terror.
A witness reported seeing the killer on a balcony and shooting towards a bridge. The area, of Jan Palach Square, is close to the old town, particularly popular with visitors at Christmas.
The killer also died, but it is not clear whether he shot himself or was shot dead by officers.
Investigators are expected to work at the crime scene overnight, and are examining a Telegram account potentially linked to the gunman.
The massacre is the worst mass shooting in Czech Republic history.
Gunman suspected of two forest murders last week
Police say they are working on the theory that the gunman who shot dead 14 people at a university in Prague was also responsible for the deaths of two people last week in a forest.
Czech media reported a 32-year-old man and his two-month-old daughter were killed in the Klanovicky forest near Prague.
Officers believe the 24-year-old gunman, who has no criminal history, chose his victims at random.
US ‘not aware’ of any citizens harmed in Prague shooting
Police have not released the identities of the 14 people shot at a Prague university on Thursday.
It’s unlikely any US citizens were harmed in the shooting, however, according to the State Department.
It told CBS News on Thursday it was “not aware of any U.S. citizens injured or killed at this time.”
World leaders offer sympathies after Prague shooting
Leaders across the globe are expressing their condolences after a horrific mass shooting in Prague on Thursday.
“The Secretary-General is shocked and saddened by today’s mass shooting at the Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic,” according to a statement from the UN Secretary-General. “He expresses his deepest condolences to the families of the victims and wishes those injured a speedy and full recovery.”
Flags also flew at half-staff at the Czech embassy in Washington.
Gunman may have fallen or jumped from university roof, governor says
The student gunman who killed 14 people at a Prague university on Thursday may have fallen or jumped from a roof at the school, according to Bohuslav Svoboda, governor of the Prague region.
Police investigating potential gunman’s Telegram account for evidence
Czech police are scouring social media accounts potentially linked to the university student responsible for a mass shooting in Prague on Thursday, The New York Times reports.
The account, which features a display name similar to the widely reported but unconfirmed name of the shooting suspect, features Russian-language posts praising past mass shootings in Russia.
“I was very inspired,” reads a post about a recent shooting in Bryansk where two students were killed, claiming the attack “did not kill enough. I will try to fix that.”
Mass shooting is deadliest in Czech history, overtaking 2015 killing
Thursday’s mass shooting at a university in Prague is the deadliest in Czech history.
The death toll surpassed that of the 2015 Uherský Brod shooting, in which nine people including the gunman were killed in a restaurant.
Here’s our reporting on that incident for more context.
Police have theory gunman may be tied to recent deaths in nearby forest
The gunman who shot 14 people at a Prague university on Thursday may be linked to two other recent deaths, according to Czech police president Martin Vondrášek.
At a press conference Thursday, he said police have a theory the gunman was responsible for the death of a 32-year-old man and his infant daughter in the nearby Klánovice Forest on 15 December.
The deaths promprted hundreds of police officers to search the forest, using tools like a helicopter with thermal imaging, but a suspect wasn’t found, The Daily Mail reports.
Detectives plan to work all night in area around shooting
Czech police said on Thursday they plan to work through the night at the crime scene in and around Prague’s Charles University, the site of a horrific mass shooting that left 15 people including the gunman dead.
“Detectives are still working in the building and examining the crime scene,” Czech police wrote in a statement in Czech on Thursday afternoon on X. “The assumption is that they will work on site all night.”
Potential Czech gunman named
Police have identified a 24-year-old Charles University student as the gunman responsible for killing 14 people and wounding more than 20 in a mass shooting in Prague on Thursday.
Officials named the suspected gunman, who died by suicide, as a world history student, abbreviating his last name for privacy reasons.
Police have asked his full name not be released, though it has been reported in other local, US, and UK media outlets.
White House laments ‘senseless’ Prague shooting
The White House on Thursday offered its condolences to those impacted by the Prague university shooting.
“The president and the first lady are praying for the families who lost loved ones and everyone else who has been affected by the senseless act of violence,” White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters.
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