A man went on a shooting spree in the streets of this western Montenegrin city on Friday, killing 10 people, including two children, before being shot dead by a passerby, officials said.
Montenegrin police chief Zoran Brjanin said in a video statement released to the media that the attacker was a 34-year-old man he identified only by his initials, VB.
Brjanin said the man used a hunting rifle to first shoot to death two children aged 8 and 11 and their mother, who were living as tenants in the attacker’s house in the Medovina neighborhood of Cetinje.
A firefighter walks next to hearses at the scene of the attack in Cetinje, 22 miles west of Podgorica, Montenegro, Friday, Aug. 12, 2022. (AP Photo/Risto Bozovic)
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Firefighters stand next to a body at the scene of the attack in Cetinje, Montenegro, Friday, Aug. 12, 2022.
The gunman then went out into the street and randomly shot 13 other people, seven of them fatally, the chief said.
“At this time, it is unclear what caused VB to commit this heinous act,” Brjanin said.
Andrijana Nastic, the prosecutor coordinating the crime scene investigation, told reporters that the gunman was killed by a bystander and that a police officer was among the wounded. He said nine of the dead died on the spot and two died at a hospital where they were taken for surgery.
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A police investigator holds evidence at the scene of an attack in Cetinje, Montenegro, Friday, Aug. 12, 2022. A man opened fire on the streets of a western Montenegrin town on Friday, killing several people, before being shot dead by a passerby, officials said.
Cetinje, the seat of Montenegro’s former royal government, is located 36 kilometers (22 miles) west of Podogrica, the current capital of the small Balkan nation.
Prime Minister Dritan Abazovic wrote on his Telegram channel that the incident was “an unprecedented tragedy” and urged the nation “to be, in its thoughts, with the families of the innocent victims, their relatives, friends and all its people Cetinje”.
Police investigators work at the scene of the attack in Cetinje, 36 kilometers (22 miles) west of Podogrica, Montenegro, Friday, August 12, 2022. A man opened fire on the streets of this western Montenegrin town on Friday, killing several people, before being shot by passerby, officials said.
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President Milo Djukanovic said on Twitter that he was “deeply moved by the news of the terrible tragedy” in Cetinje, calling for “solidarity” with the families who lost loved ones in the incident.
