2023 Prague shootings

2023 Prague shootings
2023 Prague shootings
	Faculty of Arts, Charles University and Mánes Bridge, the site of the shooting
	2023 Prague shootings (Prague city centre)
Location	Prague and Hostouň, Czech Republic
Coordinates	50°05′21″N 14°24′58″E / 50.08917°N 14.41611°E; (Faculty of Arts, Charles University main building)
Date	Klánovice Forest murders:; 15 December 2023; Charles University attack:; 21 December 2023 ; 14:54 – 15:19 (CET, UTC+1)
Target	Students and staff at Charles University and random civilians in forest park
Attack type	School shooting, mass shooting, mass murder, spree shooting, murder–suicide, patricide, pedicide
Weapons	Klánovice Forest:; 9mm Glock 45 semi-automatic pistol w/ silencer; Hostouň:; .380 ACP Škorpion semi-automatic pistol; Within Charles University:; 9mm Glock 47 semi-automatic pistol; .22 LR SIG Sauer P322 semi-automatic pistol; 12-gauge Francolin Guardian pump-action shotgun; ; University terrace:; .308 ZEV AR-10 semi-automatic rifle;
Deaths	18 in total:; 2 in Klánovice Forest on 15 December; Perpetrator's father in Hostouň on 21 December; 15 at Charles University on 21 December (including the perpetrator and 1 indirect death);
Injured	25
Perpetrator	David Kozák
Motive	Revenge on society

Jan Palach Square

Hostouň

Klánovický les

Location of the murder sites in and around Prague. Hostouň is located just off the edge of this map.

On 21 December 2023, 14 people were killed and 22 injured in a mass shooting at the main Faculty of Arts building of Charles University in central Prague, Czech Republic. Another three people were injured when the perpetrator opened fire toward the streets from the faculty's fourth-floor rooftop terrace. After receiving gunfire from Detective First Seargeant Jiří P., which missed him closely, the perpetrator, 24-year-old postgraduate student David Kozák, committed suicide by shooting himself.

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, when a father and his infant daughter were murdered in Klánovice. 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. Evidence from the shootings linked the two incidents. The shooter's father was also found shot dead at his home in Hostouň.

The attack was the deadliest mass murder in the Czech Republic since its independence in 1993, surpassing the 2020 Bohumín arson attack.