A note found at the home of the gunman who killed 14 people at a Prague university last week in the Czech Republic's worst-ever mass killing reveals that he was also responsible for a double murder before the mass shooting. The gunman, whom locals would prefer not be named publicly, confessed in the note that six days prior to the university shooting, he shot and killed a man and his infant daughter in woods on the outskirts of Prague, the Independent reports. Police acknowledged that the shooter had been on a list of 4,000 potential suspects they planned to interview about the December 15 double murder, and expressed regret they hadn't yet questioned him before he carried out his December 21 mass shooting, the BBC reports. He also killed his own father before the Charles University attack, the Daily Beast reports.
The victims of the double murder, which took place in a national forest known as the Klanovice woods, were a 32-year-old man and his 2-month-old daughter. Police confirmed, via ballistics, that the university shooter also carried out their fatal shootings. Little else has so far been revealed about the 24-year-old gunman, who committed suicide after his rampage at the university where he himself was a student, and police say his motive remains under investigation. But reports suggest he was inspired by a school shooting in Russia earlier this month, and he is believed to have posted on Telegram, "I want to do a school shooting and possibly suicide." (More Prague stories.)
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