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,” Mr. Scepanovic said during a press briefing.
Restriction on firearms
After several hours of tracking by the police and the army, the shooter was located and surrounded. When officers asked him “to put down his gun, he shot himself in the head,” Mr. Scepanovic said. “We tried to transport him to a hospital, but he succumbed to his injuries.”
In a speech in the evening, Prime Minister Milojko Spajic announced a three-day national mourning, from Thursday to Saturday inclusive. Referring to “a fight in a restaurant, during which weapons were drawn, and which degenerated”, Mr. Spajic also announced new restrictions to come on the possession of firearms.
According to the Small Arms Survey (SAS), a Swiss research program, around 245,000 firearms are in circulation in Montenegro – for a population of 630,000.
Not linked to organized crime
On site, near the traditional restaurant in which the tragedy took place, the police prevented anyone from approaching in the evening. Dozens of men, police vehicles and at least one ambulance were visible behind the barriers.
The police assured that this shooting was “not the result of a confrontation between groups belonging to organized crime”. Organized crime and corruption have long plagued Montenegro, and the town of Cetinje has been particularly hard hit in recent months.
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