Posted on 12/21/2023 6:53:47 PM PST by 11th_VA
To the outside world, he was an introverted loner, but online the Prague University gunman was not shy about sharing his sick fantasies to kill.
David Kozak used online platform Telegram to muse on massacres and mass murder, while also boasting of his plans to carry out a school shooting, according to Czech media.
He said his Telegram channel would be a “diary” of his life “before the shooting”.
“I want to do school shooting and possibly suicide,” the 24-year-old wrote in one chilling post, before adding: “I always wanted to kill. I thought I would become a maniac in the future.”
“He was an introverted type, strange probably like any other nerd,” one resident told local media.
What exactly happened on the morning of Dec 21 is not yet clear. What has been established is that Kozak murdered his father before heading to Prague.
Czech police learned that he was heading to the capital and planned to take his own life. with a rifle, certainly seems to fit the profile of a lone gunman.
The student had no criminal record but, as a legal gun owner, he had an interest in weaponry.
He had a bachelor’s degree in history and European studies, and continued with a master’s degree, focusing on the history of Poland.
Kozak would travel the 13 miles from his home to Prague for lectures at Charles University’s Faculty of Arts. It appears he lived in the central Bohemian village of Hostoun with his father in a large family house.
“He was an introverted type, strange probably like any other nerd,” one resident told local media.
“The family seemed normal. We went to their cottage years ago. His dad used to be mine’s boss and they were friends outside of work, including his wife.” …
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What kind of rifle is that? Is it a 5.56mm? Pretty complete setup for what he did. Nice to hear that he is deceased.
.223 or .308 can’t see the mag...
My cousin was one of the police officers who entered the building to neutralize this psychopath. I chatted with him, he’s physically okay but mentally he’s not okay. He’s a pretty tough cop who’s been an undercover narcotics officer as well as European frontier border patrol, but this was by far the roughest shift of his life.
On Thursday afternoon, the police confirmed that David K. was the writer of a channel on Telegram, created on December 9 under his name.
He added posts in Cyrillic script, writing that the profile would be his diary and that he wanted to commit a school shooting, possibly even suicide. The next day, he added that he was inspired by Alina Afanaskina. However, according to him, she did not kill enough people, which he intended to rectify.
He was referring to Russian schoolgirl Alina Afanaskinova, the perpetrator of a mass shooting at a school in Bryansk, where two people died and others were injured on December 7, before she committed suicide. In subsequent posts, the author referred to Afanaskinova, writing that she helped him a lot. According to the post, he always wanted to kill, stating that mass murders are more advantageous than serial ones.
I hope time helps him some at least.
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