"How can we survive this, he killed half our village": Teary-eyed neighbor talks about Mladenovac massacre

"When I woke up, it was around half past one at night. My wife was shouting, didn't you hear anything? After 20 minutes, the police rush in. They shout, 'this guy has killed half the village'

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This is what Ljubisa Vukovic, a local in a village near Mladenovac, a suburban Belgrade municipality, where a massacre was committed last night, told Telegraf.rs.

"The whole night there was a lot of police, a helicopter... I knew him (the shooter) as a boy, his father is a military man, and his grandmother lived five or six houses down from us. He lives on his own, they had some family problems, he separated from his father, grandfather. It's all terrible, with all those children (killed) in Belgrade, how can you survive now? Someone will shoot, someone may cause even greater stupidity. They watch all that on television, movies, games... They say, they don't live well, but they have everything. There is no one to mow the lawn in the yard, but they are walking around and shooting," Ljubisa said through tears.

The man added that he is now scared even of sending his granddaughter to the store across the street.

8 people were killed in a terrorist attack that took place late on Thursday night in Mladenovac, in the villages of Malo Orasje and Dubona. Among the victims is a policeman (22), his sister, and another young man (21), while 14 people have beeen wounded, Telegraf.rs has learned.

The murder suspect was arrested this morning after an eight-hour search.

According to our information, the suspect, U.B. was in a school yard with his friends where they were having a barbecue at night, but they got into an altercation. He went back home and fetched an automatic rifle.

He first shot at his barbecue companions, and then got into a Mercedes and allegedly continued shooting at people randomly from a moving car.

He reportedly later got into another vehicle.

Otherwise, the 21-year-old suspect has not been convicted before, however, we have learned that he was reported for violence and was considered a problematic young man.

Allegedly, the attacker is the son of a military man.

(Telegraf.rs)