David Kozak
To the outside world, he was a closed loner, but on the Internet, the Prague University gunman was not shy about sharing his sick murder fantasies
David Kozak used the online platform Telegram to ruminate about massacres and massacres and boasted of his plans to carry out a school shooting, Czech media reported.
He said that his Telegram channel will be a “diary” of his life “before the shooting.”
“I want to commit a school shooting and possibly commit suicide,” the 24-year-old wrote in one of his chilling messages. post, before adding: “I’ve always wanted to kill. I thought that in the future I would become a maniac.”
Kozak went on to praise the word “Ilznaz”, which is believed to be a reference to 19-year-old Ilznaz Galyaviev, who killed nine people during an attack on his former school in Kazan, Russia, in 2021.
“When Ilznaz did what he did shooting, I realized that committing mass murder is much more profitable than serial killing,” he said.
He also wrote approvingly of Russian school shooter Alina Afanaskina, who he said “helped me too much.” The 14-year-old schoolgirl shot another student and wounded five others with her father's pump-action shotgun, then turned a gun on herself in the city of Bryansk earlier this month.
“It’s like she came to my aid from heaven just in time,” he wrote.
After the attack, Czech authorities rushed exclude any connections with international terrorist organizations.
Kozak during the shootout at the University of Prague “Introverted type”
Kozak, of course, dressed in black and armed with a rifle, seems to fit the profile lone shooter.
The student had no criminal record, but as a legal gun owner, he was interested in guns.
He had a bachelor's degree in history and European studies and went on to graduate with a concentration attention to history. Poland.
Kozak traveled 13 miles from his home to Prague to lecture at the Faculty of Arts at Charles University. Apparently, he lived in the central Bohemian village of Hostun with his father in a large family house.
“He was an introverted type, strange, probably like any other nerd,” one of the residents told local media.
“The family seemed normal. We visited their cottage many years ago. His father was my boss, and they were friends outside of work, including his wife.”
What exactly happened on the morning of December 21 is still unclear. It is established that Kozak killed his father before leaving for Prague.
Czech police learned that he was heading to the capital and planned to commit suicide.
Crazy Ambitions
Suicide featured prominently in Kozak's posts on social networks, where he poured out his darkest thoughts.
He was due to attend a lecture at 14:00 and opened fire shortly before 15:00.
In the bloodshed that followed, he fulfilled his insane ambition to become a mass murderer.
When the police rushed towards him, he is said to have turned the gun on himself and caused what was described as 'devastating' injury after shootout with officers.
It is believed that he may have been shot by police first and then committed suicide to avoid arrest.
Kozak maintained his Telegram channel in secret until the moment of the attack, when he opened it for reading.
Messages taken from it spread across social networks, bringing him the fame he clearly craved when news of the worst mass shooting ever emerged in the Czech Republic.
His chilling “diary” has now been deleted, but not before opening a chapter of pain and grief for the friends and families of his many victims.
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