Police confirm death of Krakow mass shooting suspect
The 24-year-old gunman who killed six people in Krakow's main square died in hospital after being shot and arrested by police, authorities said.
Police announced on X that the suspect in the Krakow mass shooting died in hospital on Monday. The 24-year-old man had been shot by officers and taken into custody after opening fire from his car in the historic Main Market Square on Saturday, killing four women and two men. Among the dead were a British man and an Austrian woman, while five foreign nationals from the United Kingdom, Portugal, Russia, Germany and Austria were wounded.
Investigators later discovered the bodies of the suspect's sister, mother and father at his family home in Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski, northeast of Krakow, with gunshot wounds indicating they were likely killed in the same incident. Prosecutors have opened a terrorism investigation, and the interior minister said the attacker had been interested in far-right ideologies. A spokesperson for the Ministry of the Interior and Administration noted that the gunman wore military fatigues and multiple emblems, which are being examined.
Two police officers who stopped the gunman were injured but remained conscious and are receiving treatment in hospital. On Sunday, mourners placed candles and flowers near the bullet-marked square as the city, a major tourist destination, grappled with the aftermath.