2023 Prague shootings

2023 Prague shootings
2023 Prague shootings
	Faculty of Arts, Charles University and Mánes Bridge, the site of the shooting
	2023 Prague shootings (Prague city centre)
Location	50°05′21″N 14°24′58″E / 50.08917°N 14.41611°E; (Faculty of Arts, Charles University main building); Prague and Hostouň, Czech Republic
Date	Klánovice Forest murders:; 15 December 2023; Charles University attack:; 21 December 2023 ; 14:54 – 15:19 (CET, UTC+1)
Target	Students and staff at Charles University and random civilians
Attack type	School shooting, mass shooting, mass murder, spree shooting, murder–suicide, patricide, pedicide
Weapons	Klánovice Forest:; 9mm Glock 45 semi-automatic pistol w/ silencer; Hostouň:; .380 ACP Škorpion semi-automatic pistol; Charles University:; 9mm Glock 47 semi-automatic pistol; .22 LR SIG Sauer P322 semi-automatic pistol; 12-gauge Francolin Guardian pump-action shotgun; .308 ZEV AR-10 semi-automatic rifle;
Deaths	18 in total:; 2 in Klánovice Forest on 15 December; Perpetrator's father in Hostouň on 21 December; 15 at Charles University on 21 December (including the perpetrator and 1 indirect death);
Injured	25
Perpetrator	David Kozák
Motive	Misanthropy

Jan Palach Square

Hostouň

Klánovický les

Location of the murder sites in and around Prague. Hostouň is located just off the edge of this map.

On 21 December 2023, a mass shooting occurred at Charles University's Faculty of Arts main building in central Prague, Czech Republic. A lone gunman, 24-year-old postgraduate student David Kozák, killed 13 people and injured 25 others before committing suicide after exchanging gunfire with police; an additional victim died indirectly from falling to her death while trying to escape the perpetrator.

At the time of the shooting, the perpetrator was one in a pool of about 4,000 suspects in a double murder case that took place six days earlier, 25 kilometres (16 mi) away, when a man and his infant daughter were murdered in the Klánovice Forest. Evidence from the previous shootings linked the two incidents. Kozák's father was also found dead at his home in Hostouň, having been murdered hours before the attack.

The attack was the deadliest mass murder in the Czech Republic since its independence in 1993, surpassing the 2020 Bohumín arson attack.