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Police in the Czech Republic released intense body camera footage Friday, showing officers inside the Prague university just after the scene of the country’s deadliest mass shooting on Thursday.
Officers are seen moving through the building, guns drawn and yelling, and tending to injured students in classrooms. At one point they break through a door that had been barricaded with chairs and desks.
In one heart-wrenching scene, officers carry an injured victim out of the building, as she can be heard moaning in pain.
At least 14 people died and 25 more were injured, the Czech police chief said at a press conference Thursday evening, revising an earlier toll that reported 15 dead and at least 30 injured.
Local media identified the suspect as David Kozák, 24, a student at the school where he unleashed horror, police said.
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Police in the Czech Republic have released intense body camera footage showing officers inside the Prague university just after the scene of the country’s deadliest mass shooting.
Officers are seen moving through the building, guns drawn and yelling, and tending to injured students in classrooms. At one point they break through a door that had been barricaded with chairs and desks.
In one heart-wrenching scene, officers carry an injured victim out of the building, as she can be heard moaning in pain.
The body of the dead gunman can also be seen as cops canvass the balcony of the Charles University building where he murdered 14 of his fellow students, injuring dozens more on Thursday afternoon.
Sandra Lee marked herself safe in the aftermath of Thursday’s mass shooting at a university in Prague that left at least 14 dead.
Lee announced on Facebook that she and her boyfriend Ben Youcef were not in harms way during their trip — but were close to the massacre.
“Ben and I left Prague,” she wrote. “We are safe but it is shocking how fast the world can turn.
“We were less than 3 blocks from the shooting site.”
The notorious chef wrote on Instagram she and Youcef were visiting Prague because she is “25% Czech” and that she wanted to visit the country.
A photo circulating on X shows the weapon used in the Prague mass shooting, according to a weapons researcher who shared it.
“The weapon used by the perpetrator seems to be a civilian 5.56mm AR-15 platform rifle equipped with a scope,” @war_noir wrote.
Police said Thursday a few hours after the terrifying event that the suspected gunman owned several firearms, legally.
New nighttime photos show students being evacuated after a mass shooting at Prague’s Charles University, where 14 people were killed Thursday.
Authorities had said 15 victims were dead, but revised the death toll to 14 around 9 p.m. local time (3 p.m. EST).
Authorities said Thursday night local time they had received tips about the suspected gunman in the deadly mass shooting before he unleashed horror at Charles University.
Police got a tip saying he was en route to Prague from his hometown of Hostouň — just a 30-minute drive from the Czech city — and intended to take his own life, CNN reported.
Cops were aware that the 24-year-old had a lecture at 2 p.m. local time (8 a.m. EST) at the university, and evacuated the building where that class was supposed to be held, Czech police president Martin Vondrášek said in a news conference.
He added that they then got a call about a shooting in a different campus building.
Prague police said the gunman who killed 15 people at the university he attended was found dead on a balcony — and they described the suspect in disturbing terms.
The horrific event was “well thought out, a horrible act,” Prague Police Chief Martin Vondrasek said Thursday, according to the UK publication the Independent.
Cops also said they believe the 24-year-old killed his father earlier in the day and was planning to kill himself.
He legally owned several guns and was an excellent student, police added.
It is not yet known if the gunman was shot by police or himself, while officials said there was “nothing to suggest that he had an accomplice.”
The gunman who opened fire at Charles University in Prague reportedly killed his father before the mass shooting.
The father of the 24-year-old gunman was found dead earlier in the day Thursday, the Independent reportedciting a Czech journalist who had spoken to police.
Video circulating online shows Charles University students jumping out of windows to escape the shooter:
The unidentified suspect in a mass school shooting in Prague was a student at the university, the local police chief said.
At least 15 people are confirmed dead, cops added.
With Post wires