In a speech in the evening, Prime Minister Milojko Spajic announced a three-day national mourning. Police also announced new upcoming restrictions on gun ownership.
Published on 02/01/2025 06:15
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An armed and drunk man killed ten people, including two children, and injured four others after an altercation in a restaurant on Wednesday, January 1, in southern Montenegro, before committing suicide with a gunshot to the head while he was surrounded by the police.
The drama began in a restaurant in the village of Bajice, near the town of Cetinje. The suspect “after arguing with a customer with whom he had spent a large part of the day, and having drunk large quantities of alcohol, went home, took a gun and killed four people”said police chief Lazar Scepanovic.
The 45-year-old killer then went to three other locations where he killed six more people, including a member of his own family, the restaurant owner and his two children, aged 10 and 13. . “He tried to kill four other people whose lives are no longer in danger”said the police chief.
After several hours of tracking by the police and the army, the shooter was located and surrounded. When the officers asked him “to put down his gun, he shot himself in the head”said the police chief. “We tried to transport him to a hospital, but he succumbed to his injuries”he clarified. The police assured in a that this shooting was not “not the result of a confrontation between groups belonging to organized crime.”
In a speech in the evening, Prime Minister Milojko Spajic announced a three-day national mourning, from Thursday to Saturday inclusive. Evoking “a fight in a restaurant, during which weapons were drawn, and which escalated”Lazar Spajic also announced new restrictions to come on the possession of firearms.
