Grandma of the second victim, a girl: We don't know how we'll go on without her. Grandad will lose his mind

Photo: Mileta Mircetic

The morning after the unprecedented tragedy that struck Serbia, and the region yesterday - when a 7th grade student in the Vladislav Ribnikar Elementary School in Belgrade, K.K., opened fire and killed eight students and a security guard, and wounded 6 more students and a history teacher - started in a very distressing way.

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In front of the school where the mass shooting took place an increasing number of people are gathering to pay their respects to the victims. Among them are the relatives of those who died tragically.

The grandmother of the girl who was the first student victim of K.K. - after the guard - told Telegraf.rs through tears:

"My granddaughter was killed, she was the on duty (student), he killed her first. My grandson also went to school here," the tearful woman said.

Everyone has only words of praise for the murdered girl, and she will be remembered as wonderful and cheerful.

"We don't know how we will do without her, I hope her friend will be fine, they are fighting for her life, they are fifth graders... Her grandfather will lose his mind, I don't know how we will go on," the grandmother told us.

On Wednesday around 08:30 K.K. came to his school armed, and first killed a security guard at the entrance, then three students in the hall, and then went to the history classroom where he fired at least one round at the teacher and then at his classmates.

The authorities said yesterday that K.K. had been planning this crime for a month, and found schematics, sketches, as well as a "kill list" in his home.

More than 50 shell casings were recovered at the scene of the crime, and K.K. was also carrying four Molotov cocktails in his backpack. During questioning, he said he wanted to use those to prevent others from entering the school "before he finishes his job."

He committed the massacre with a weapon he stole from his father, who was detained and questioned yesterday. Telegraf.rs has learned that the father told the police he kept all his weapons in a safe that locked with a code and that he does not know how the boy found out the code.

He admitted that he was taking his son with him to the shooting range, and that the boy had learned how to shoot when he was only 12 years old.

Because he has not yet turned 14, K.K. cannot be held criminally responsible for his crime.

During an extraordinary address, President of Serbia Aleksandar Vucic proposed ten measures, which would prevent something like this from happening again in Serbia. One of those measures is the lowering of the threshold for criminal responsibility from 14 to 12 years of age.

Last night, in almost every town in Serbia, tributes were paid to the victims of the Belgrade mass school shooting. People lit candles and left flowers and toys in their cities' squares.

(Telegraf.rs)