The Czech Republic is in a state of mourning following the country's worst mass shooting at Charles University in Prague, which resulted in 15 fatalities and left 24 wounded. The 24-year-old gunman, David Kozak, who was a student at the university, killed himself after the attack. Czech police have tightened security around schools and other public buildings in response to the tragedy. The Czech government declared December 23 a national day of mourning, observed on Saturday with bells ringing across the nation, flags at half-mast, and a minute of silence at noon to honor the victims. A memorial service was held at St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague. Police revealed that Kozak had a stash of legally owned guns and had equipment for possible barricading. He had also killed his father and a man and his baby in a forest before the university attack, which may have been a practice run. Amidst the grief, tributes and memorials have been pouring in, with people laying flowers and lighting candles. A Prague hero reportedly shouted to distract the gunman, helping others to flee.
The gunman who killed 14 people at a university in Prague before killing himself, reportedly left a suicide note confessing to the murder of a father and his baby six days earlier 🔗 Read more https://t.co/Hn69XkemHY
Prague gunman reportedly confessed to murdering a father and baby in suicide note 🔗 Read more https://t.co/FfPNQVAMlU
Prague university gunman 'confessed to killing baby' in suicide note https://t.co/QU2qVLfC0w
Czech mass shooting: Gunman confessed to shooting baby in woods https://t.co/bMm9p6p5lQ
‼️In the house where the Prague shooter, who opened fire at Charles University, resided, a letter confessing to the double murder of a 32-year-old man and his 2-month-old daughter was found, reported by DENÍK N publication. #Prague | #CzechRepublic https://t.co/wmRA2bqUOO
‼️In the house where the Prague shooter, who opened fire at Charles University, resided, a letter confessing to the double murder of a 32-year-old man and his 2-month-old daughter was found, reported Deníku N. #Prague | #CzechRepublic https://t.co/4WlpqdjmVh
The Czech government declared Dec. 23 a national day of mourning, Prime Minister Petr Fiala said on Thursday. #Czech | #shooting https://t.co/dHxpDBEvDP
🔴 Slovakian police arrest man over threat to copy Prague shooting https://t.co/4oWiYttLmn
Journalist Olesya Gerasimenko says the training-grenade attack at the Riga bar last night was aimed squarely at her and BBC journalists, arguing that the assailant knew he was targeting/intimidating reporters. This wasn't some unrelated prank, she says. https://t.co/pISTHJ4bsu
At a party of the BBC Russian Service in Riga, a training grenade was thrown. The event took place in the Riga bar Čē. By 11 pm, only journalists remained in the bar. At this time, a man looked inside and threw a training RGD-5 grenade at the feet of the journalists -> https://t.co/WhtIZY9acZ
⚡Media: Man throws training grenade at BBC Russian service journalists in Riga. https://t.co/5sMplY3DUi
An unknown person threw a grenade at a party of the BBC Russian Service in Riga. Journalists believe that the attack is related to their professional activities As one of the participants of the events told "Novaya Gazeta Europa", during a party in the Riga bar Čē, the door… https://t.co/yZlHnOemR5
Inside the Prague University Shooting: The 24-year-old man who killed his father before the mass shooting https://t.co/seniBU6LCk
Czechs are coming to grips with the worst mass shooting in the country’s history in which 14 died https://t.co/276UvnrSde
The Czech Republic came to a standstill at noon Saturday as people across the country observed a minute of silence for the victims of its worst mass killing that left 14 dead and questions about the shooter’s motive. https://t.co/PR8XMd0F6v
Someone has attacked a group of @bbcrussian journalists with a training grenade at a bar in Riga, Latvia. There were no reported injuries, and the assailant escaped in a black BMW. https://t.co/iPdGhfOecU
Bells rang across the Czech Republic, flags flew at half-mast and a minute’s silence was observed at noon as Czechs mourned the 14 victims killed by a student gunman at a Prague university in the country's worst mass shooting https://t.co/3LDtlD9pET https://t.co/e9TUt3iSU5
Czech Republic marks a day of mourning for the victims of its worst mass killing https://t.co/lpvBuDt2ds
Czech Republic Holds National Day of Mourning Following Prague Mass Shooting https://t.co/9pYSVU82AB
The Czech Republic came to a standstill at noon Saturday as people across the country observed a minute of silence as part of a national day of mourning to honor the victims of the worst mass killing in Czech history. https://t.co/3SH4aMyJBk
Czech Republic mourns victims of worst mass shooting in its history https://t.co/1CBERQ0wFk https://t.co/tA23xfTAI2
Bells rang across the Czech Republic and flags flew at half-mast as the country mourned victims of its worst mass shooting, which killed at least 14 at a Prague university https://t.co/3LDtlD9pET https://t.co/rjxtRbCS74
Bells rang across the Czech Republic and flags flew at half-mast as Czechs mourned the 14 victims killed by a student gunman at a Prague university building, the country's worst mass shooting https://t.co/3LDtlD9pET https://t.co/4gZK5jN0GT
The names of the three victims of the shooting at Charles University in Prague have been revealed The Department of Musicology at Charles University has confirmed the death of Lenka Hlavková, head of the department. "Based on verified information from the family and with their… https://t.co/gBge5gzhep
Czech Republic holds national day of mourning for victims of Prague university mass shooting https://t.co/2ZFABCTssI
Bells rang across the Czech Republic, flags flew at half-mast and people lit candles and laid flowers as Czechs observed a day of mourning after a student gunman killed 14 people at a Prague university building https://t.co/3LDtlD9pET https://t.co/ksqrs5GCkE
Bells ring across Czech Republic to mourn victims of mass shooting https://t.co/xadigzCUVU https://t.co/FRVj52oRVx
🇨🇿 Bells ring across the Czech Republic to honor victims of a mass shooting - Archbishop Jan Graubner leads a mass at St. Vitus cathedral in Prague Castle. - Country observes a minute of silence at noon, with people stopping in streets and malls during Christmas shopping. -… https://t.co/tznHFv0vNp https://t.co/EQQ9ZiOGBp
My thoughts are with the people of Prague and of the Czech Republic today as they mourn the death of too many people following this week’s mass shooting.
Flags on public buildings flew at half mast Saturday and masses were scheduled across the Czech Republic for a day of national mourning after a deadly shooting at Prague's Charles University -- the worst in the country in decades. ➡️ https://t.co/2s3gi0Ebhj https://t.co/BHp6BlYqFZ
Czech Republic holds a national day of mourning for the victims of its worst mass killing https://t.co/44hIeRkjiC
BREAKING: A moment of silence, followed by bells ringing, is held in Prague for the victims of Thursday’s mass shooting at a university. https://t.co/PAiZ4D1jU3 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube https://t.co/micpgRJHIn
Mourners pay respects to victims of horrific Prague shooting https://t.co/nY973MyXCs
BREAKING: A memorial church service is being held at St. Vittus Cathedral in Prague for the victims of Thursday’s mass shooting which left 14 people dead https://t.co/PAiZ4D1jU3 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube https://t.co/oa8v0meKHu
Prague shooting: Czech Republic holds national day of mourning after country's worst mass killing https://t.co/Rm0AvMVqxM
Czech Republic declares National Day of Mourning in honor of shooting victims https://t.co/YnF4D1CFMo https://t.co/K533TaLWWL
'This is a city, and a country, that is struggling to come to terms with what happened' Sky's Europe Correspondent @adamparsons reports live from Prague as the Czech Republic holds a day of national mourning following Thursday's mass shooting https://t.co/PAiZ4D1jU3 📺 Sky 501 https://t.co/opMT0T4a3P
Prague mourns victims after shooting at Charles University's philosophy faculty building - AP photo Mourning took place outside the faculty building. Fourteen people became victims of the shooting, another 25 were injured. Ten victims are in serious condition. The shooter,… https://t.co/VY7ojO05Ea
Czech police share video of gunman hunting at Prague university https://t.co/vTsGEkoupO
Czech Republic mourns victims of Prague university mass shooting https://t.co/ipvFTOe7Rx
The Czech government has declared 23 December a day of national mourning following Thursday's deadly mass shooting. 🔗 Click below to read more https://t.co/mcP7EEez33
Czechs mourn 14 dead, dozens wounded in worst mass shooting in country's history https://t.co/3t1z6510n8 https://t.co/Z0YgRJuyEh
Czechs mourned victims of the country's worst mass shooting as police tightened security around schools and other public buildings across the country a day after a student gunman killed 14 people at a Prague university building https://t.co/SuQSh7dK3e https://t.co/nEWFOiIs1t
Prague Shooter May Have Been Responsible For String of Killings, Including Newborn Baby, Say Czech Police https://t.co/LsR5XeRTAj
Prague in mourning after deadly mass shooting - but survivor says city 'will stand strong' Read more 🔗 https://t.co/mcP7EEez33
🔴 As the Prague gunman relentlessly fired at his victims, an onlooker shouted “shoot here you f---er” in an attempt to distract him https://t.co/XZzk2mpEAh
Czech police deal with fake grenade situation after Prague mass shooting The incident has come only a day after a mass shooting event at a university in Prague, which took the lives of 14 people and injured a further 25. #Prague | #CzechRepublic https://t.co/JSVxYDFNzU
Prague gunman had stash of legally owned guns say police, as Czech Republic mourns victims https://t.co/pGKVDGuM8A
Tributes poured in as the Czech Republic reeled in the aftermath of the worst mass shooting in its modern history on Friday and the first victims were named https://t.co/WROfWkFIcn
🚨🚨🚨Czech police: A conflict occurred between two men at the IP Pavlova metro station. Both were foreigners. One of the men had a mock-up grenade with him 🔗 https://t.co/phn1ddeeNy #Prague 🇨🇿 https://t.co/tGMCXVVdvC
🚨🚨🚨Czech police: A conflict occurred between two men at the IP Pavlova metro station. Both were foreigners. One of the men had a mock-up grenade with him. #Prague 🇨🇿 https://t.co/KpjXa4kclw
Seznam Zprávy, citing its source, reports that the student-killer had equipment for possible barricading and blocking the entrance. Part of the weaponry is depicted in photos obtained by SZ from a reliable source. #Prague #shooting #DavidKozak #CharlesUniversity https://t.co/OpWhbLsTWV
A student who just carried out the worst mass shooting in Czech history — killing 14, wounding 25 others at Charles University in Prague — kills himself as cops closed in. 10 of the wounded are critical, death toll could go up. https://t.co/dtzPhhPjuW
Foreign nationals were among at least 14 killed after a student opened fire at a university in Prague, authorities said. More than 20 others were also wounded in one of the Czech Republic’s worst mass shootings. https://t.co/O4oQBXKYUP
Shock, tears as Prague reels from university shooting https://t.co/ahCImgDq60
Czech authorities release more details a day after Prague's worst-ever mass shooting when a student gunman killed 14 people at a Prague university building, and the events that preceded the attack https://t.co/SuQSh7dcdG https://t.co/D6KuHhBJVk
⚠️ 'SHOOT HERE!': REPORTER SCREAMS AT PRAGUE GUNMAN TO HELP PEOPLE FLEE "Hey, you fucker, here I am, shoot here!" screamed a Czech reporter trying to distract a gunman who killed 14 people at a university building in Prague on Thursday, helping people to flee the country's… https://t.co/DyIGXTRIRx
Czechs are coming to grips with the worst mass shooting in the country's history in which 14 died https://t.co/ck9ubnfnmc
Czechs mourn victims of university shooting as police patrol public areas https://t.co/xj5YVCo3ZZ
Police confirm gun owned by Prague shooter WAS used to slay father and his two-month-old baby: Chilling double-murder is feared to have been 'dry run' for university rooftop carnage https://t.co/DWjTgTPLbx https://t.co/obEI1jJyFK
People in the Czech capital have been trying to come to grips the worst mass shooting in the country’s history that left 14 dead and dozens injured. https://t.co/PpV0quMxD0
Shooting at Prague University Leaves at Least 14 Dead and 25 Injured https://t.co/lSa6YXNL4B
Police confirm gun owned by Prague shooter WAS used to slay father and his two-month-old baby https://t.co/jU2zts5zno https://t.co/2vUw3t4EqG
Prague shooting: Police release footage of officers storming building https://t.co/3xGBUnHolA
People in the Czech capital were trying to come to grips Friday with the worst mass shooting in the country's history that left 14 dead and dozens wounded inside a university building. https://t.co/RIKTTu60or https://t.co/RIKTTu60or
JUST IN: Prague gunman previously murdered man and baby in forest as practice for mass shooting, police say https://t.co/jm2cuhYxRa
BREAKING: Czech police confirm there is a ballistic match between the weapon found at the home of the Prague university shooting suspect and the weapon used in a shooting last week. https://t.co/VG24WMG9xl 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube https://t.co/iOdKKMtRTO
Czechs mourn 14 dead and dozens wounded in the worst mass shooting in the country's history https://t.co/PtBImWUKrG
‼️ Ballistic expertise has revealed a MATCH between the weapon used in the Klanovice Forest, where a man and an infant were previously killed, and the weapon found in the house where the university shooter lived. Emergency message from the Czech police! #Prague #shooting https://t.co/doXIUIyrvt
A 24-year-old student who killed 13 people in a mass shooting at a Prague university is thought to have shot dead a man and his baby daughter in a forest last week in what may have been a dry run for the attack. https://t.co/0rwMKsd67x
Police have released bodycam footage of officers storming a university building in Prague during their response to a shooting which killed 14 people. Read more: https://t.co/2w48LWdGjz https://t.co/ntZAhg3f4d
Prague university shooting: Czechs mourn 14 dead, dozens hurt in country's unprecedented attack. https://t.co/TZML0gyplC Click the image to read more:
Five minutes of terror: Astonishing bodycam footage shows Prague police race into university building, search corridors for gunman and treat wounded victims before finding killer's body on the roof https://t.co/CavjnqvD70 https://t.co/4Dm4OKT8aM
🇨🇿 The black balance of the massacre at the university in Prague ⎯ 15 dead and 24 wounded, Saturday is a day of mourning in the Czech Republic https://t.co/nySu3ETMkT
People in the Czech capital were trying to come to grips Friday with the worst mass shooting in the country’s history that left 14 dead and dozens injured. https://t.co/nmvSTI819K
🕯️ This is what the area in front of Charles University in Prague looks today, where at least 15 people were shot dead yesterday https://t.co/DWR0Xtnv53
#Czechia Prague today. Yesterday, a gunman shot and killed 14 people, injuring another 25 at a university in Prague. My heart goes out to the families of the victims, my friends in Czechia, and the Czech nation. Stay strong and safe. https://t.co/vh9tAcXr0J
Prague gunman killed himself after attack https://t.co/GiPcuqLbZt
Prague hero shouted "Shoot here, you s**t" to distract gunman from students https://t.co/y1F5Aq4YVM
WATCH: Terrifying bodycam footage of Prague police desperately searching for mass shooter https://t.co/A5GCtfMqkY
“I have no idea how on earth the authorities are going to solve that.” The Sun’s Trevor Kavanagh analyses rising cases of shootings and stabbings in Europe, as the Czech Republic observes a day of mourning after yesterday’s mass shooting in Prague. @TVKev | @daisymcandrew https://t.co/oLUtze35Uy
Three foreign nationals were among 25 wounded after a student opened fire at a university in the Czech capital, Prague, killing 14 people, authorities said. https://t.co/v2C9W4cmAR
Czech police tightened security around schools and other public buildings across the country and Prague's Charles University canceled all lectures and events after a student shooter killed 13 people at a university building https://t.co/pp35aJ20ZC
LIVE: People gather at memorial for Prague shooting victims https://t.co/3DTeElNSmZ
Czech police on Friday were investigating why a 24-year-old student killed 14 people and wounded 25 others in the nation’s worst such shooting in modern history. https://t.co/NjJ2PzyCdX
🇨🇿 JUST IN: BODYCAM FOOTAGE FROM PRAGUE MASS SHOOTING https://t.co/AZ3aOzy7ht https://t.co/zoNENTHBmI
Police in Prague, Czech Republic, have released more bodycam footage from the mass shooting on Thursday evening. 🔗 https://t.co/p1ZNoWYwYU 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube https://t.co/tzfplO4Ht0
Footage shows police storming a building in search of a gunman after 14 people were killed and 25 were injured on 21 December at Charles University in Prague.
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A gunman killed 14 people and injured 25 in the Czech Republic’s deadliest mass shooting https://t.co/331NOrds8n https://t.co/I4tg1qkEug
Prague university shooting: 3 foreign nationals among wounded in attack that killed 14. https://t.co/uC37IzYKHS Click the image to read more:
Czech police release bodycam video from yesterday's response to the Charles University mass shooting https://t.co/BHbtqyvnxD
At least 14 people were killed and dozens more injured in a mass shooting at Prague’s historic Charles University. The 24-year-old gunman, who is also dead, was a student, authorities say. https://t.co/cqGgSlHQgA https://t.co/4wZgo9HJn3
Investigators on Friday were working to establish a motive for a deadly gun rampage in the center of Prague a day earlier, the Czech Republic’s worst mass shooting since the immediate aftermath of World War II. https://t.co/Ra7dhODAvu
Police have released bodycam footage of officers storming a university building during their response to a shooting in Prague which killed 14 people. 🔗 https://t.co/UiVxjWkeqw https://t.co/Tt7LJ0BYnL
Three foreign nationals among the wounded in Prague university shooting https://t.co/oAZM2Deg9l
NEW: Prague hero shouted "Shoot here, you s**t" to distract gunman from students https://t.co/fbgaBSxi7n
Watch Prague bodycam footage showing armed police storming building to take down David Kozak, shooter who gunned down 14 at Czech university https://t.co/mrs8liH4TA