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.