The Prague killer had an arsenal and hid the weapons in his guitar case

He shot himself when he realized that he no longer had any chance and that he no longer had time to kill again, as was the case in his crazy plans for which he had assembled an arsenal worthy of a consummate terrorist.

David Kozak, the 24-year-old Czech who committed on Thursday a massacre at the University of Prague, was found dead on the roof of a campus building.

The confirmation came from the police, who released the images of the body cameras of the officers who surrounded him after having advanced floor by floor, guided by the indications of students and teachers who managed to hide in the classrooms, in the libraries and even on a ledge of the school. building.

He himself had anticipated that he intended to commit suicide in the delirious messages published on Telegram in the days preceding the massacre.

But this student with psychiatric problems had given no clues that he was trying to cause as many deaths as possible.

This was the goal of arsenal of weapons and ammunition found by officers in the building, which Prague Police Director Petr Matejicek called “incredible” and with which he intended to carry out “a much bigger massacre”.

Guns in the guitar case

Kozak had meticulously prepared the massacre.

In the previous days he had made at least three trips by bus to the capital from Hostoun, about 30 kilometers from Prague, where he lived, with a guitar case where he probably hid his weapons.

A fellow citizen who usually took the same bus told the investigators.

“In recent days he was traveling with his guitar case, something I had never seen him do before. Now I think I know why and that he probably didn’t have the musical instrument with him,” the woman told the site. seznam.cz.

An arsenal composed of eight different types of weapons including guns and rifles, a shotgun and a silencer, all apparently registered in his name and in lawful possession.

But not only.

A powerful homemade device consisting of “cylinder, ammunition, pyrotechnic material and chemical substances” was found in the basement of the house, according to a source close to the investigation, reported to the website PrahaIn.cz.

More details of a heinous crime

Meanwhile, something else details on the dynamics of the events that caused 14 deaths and more than 20 injuries on campus.

According to Lidovky.cz sources, it was the mother who informed the police that her son was going to university with the intention of committing suicide, but the searches were concentrated in a different building from the one the killer had entered.

He had a long time to sow terror and death.

“He went to all the classrooms to see if there were people to shoot,” she said Caretaker Jakob Weizman, student and journalist who was taking an exam when he heard “shots and screams”.

He barricaded himself in the classroom with the teacher, using tables and chairs to block the door as Kozak tried to force it open. When both were evacuated by the police “there was blood all over the faculty”.

Ballistics tests on a gun found in the family’s home also confirmed that Kozak was the perpetrator of another vicious double murder last week in the Klanovice forest: that of a two-month-old baby girl and her 32-year-old father. The day after the massacre in the Czech capital, silence and pain reigned.

A telegram of condolence was sent by Pope Francis to the university and in front of the doors the people of Prague, under the rain mixed with snow, placed flowers and candles in memory of the victims.

Tomorrow there will be national mourning throughout the country, where four people who risked emulating Kozak have been arrested and checks and security measures have been intensified in selected places and schools until at least January 1st.

Source: ANSA