Police evacuated the Arts Faculty building, where the attacker was to attend a lecture, but were then called to the faculty’s large main building, arriving within minutes of reports of shooting, police chief Martin Vondrasek said. Went.
“Police received unconfirmed information from an account on social networks that it was allegedly inspired by a terrorist attack that occurred in Russia in the autumn of this year,” Vondrasek told reporters. They said the shooter was a legal holder of several firearms.
“This was a premeditated horrific act that began in the Kladno area and unfortunately ended here.”
Vondrasek said the gunman is also suspected of killing another man and his two-month-old daughter who were found shot to death in the woods in a village outside Prague last week.
Vondrasek said the gunman’s death was likely a suicide, but authorities were also investigating whether he may have been killed by police return fire.
Police said he was a high-achieving student with no prior criminal record and acted alone.
Police asked not to reveal the man’s identity but his name, reported by some Czech media, matches the police search report.
Interior Minister Vit Rakusson said the shootings were not related to international terrorism.