Shooting at Prague University

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No Mercy wrote:

He killed his father with 3 shots to the head

I really want to know how he killed the father and child without being caught. Are any details released?

Update From Czech Media


The prosecutor spoke about the faculty killer's motive: He didn't suffer from a mental disorder, she said

According to supervising state attorney Jana Murínová, investigators are close to announcing the motive of the shooter who killed 14 people at the Faculty of Arts of the Charles University in Prague before the end of the year last year.

"A disease motive can be clearly ruled out," said prosecutor Murínová. "That means he didn't suffer from a mental disorder," she said during a meeting of the House Security Committee.

However, she confirmed earlier information that the killer, who first killed a man and a child in Klánovické les last December and a few days later his father and then 14 people in the Faculty of Philosophy building, was receiving treatment. "I would like to say that not every patient of a psychiatric office is mentally ill," said Murínová.

though the man had received psychiatric treatment in the past, he obtained a firearms license and purchased eight guns before the shooting.

From the information heard at the committee meeting, it emerged that the police had called in an expert from the field of psychology to investigate the case. Its task is to compile a profile of the offender.

"He has until the end of May. Witnesses, classmates, friends are summoned. We go deep, deep into his life," added prosecutor Murínová.

When the shooter's profile is complete, it will be possible to make his motive public, she said.

Some more updates on David Kozak in this Slovak article

I've summarised some of the highlights into bullet points, otherwise copy-pasting would make this too long. (Google Translate was used)

-> Police document containing new info was released
-> According to the police documents he planned the attack for several months.
-> He considered attacking the centre of Prague at a public event, however decided on the University
-> David Kozak also wrote a letter confessing to the prior forest murders "I committed the crime with full awareness and conscience, and no other person helped me in planning or directly carrying out the crime"
-> In the letter he also stated how he felt feelings of injustice, revenge against society and homicidal thoughts
-> However despite this in the letter he did not state a motive for the attacks
-> David Kozak attended several sessions with a psychiatrist
-> Between Sep 2022 and Nov 2022 he attended 4 sessions with a psychiatrist, a psychiatrist also requested him to undergo a psychological examination which he did in Dec 2022 however after this he stopped visiting doctors.
-> The police conducted a psychological assessment of David Kozak, according to them his personality can be described as "schizoid with narcissistic and dissocial traits and a very solid IQ". In the last year of his life he was described as having a "long-term and strong incitement to murderous activity,"
-> A psychiatrist and a psychologist came to the same conclusions a year before the shooting.

Coming back to this forum... this shooting is what makes me online. I'm hooked up to this because it's a particular case.

A czech shooter who was actually a serial killer, motivated by pure nothingness, just some young girl who did a shooting in russia.

Such a high death toll, lives taken, for nothing... There isn't an exact motive to this at all! Sure, he may be mentally disturbed, but he also has never been tested. And we can't really judge off what he did, who he is.

Finding out who this guy is and why he did what he did will be hard for whoever wants.

I also expected the shooter to look ugly hes actually a decent looking dude. Dont think the motive was love

bloedbad wrote:

Coming back to this forum... this shooting is what makes me online. I'm hooked up to this because it's a particular case.

A czech shooter who was actually a serial killer, motivated by pure nothingness, just some young girl who did a shooting in russia.

Such a high death toll, lives taken, for nothing... There isn't an exact motive to this at all! Sure, he may be mentally disturbed, but he also has never been tested. And we can't really judge off what he did, who he is.

Finding out who this guy is and why he did what he did will be hard for whoever wants.

I also expected the shooter to look ugly hes actually a decent looking dude. Dont think the motive was love

Of course he wasn't an incel. Despite his good looks and height, people probably targeted him because he was an awkward nerd. That is what his writings imply. Surely he wasn't inspired by the Russian bitch? That rumor was peddled by the fake telegram channel. Either way, he considered murder for a while. I can't remember how long because the new info didn't intrigue me.

I think this is all pictures of him:

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That one of him holding a glass of Champaign is so creepy and chilling almost like a gaping lizard. Interesting how this guy managed to escape killing a father and child then instead of calling himself in or be a serial killer he became a mass murderer too.

BlackAndWhiteKittenz wrote:

That one of him holding a glass of Champaign is so creepy and chilling almost like a gaping lizard. Interesting how this guy managed to escape killing a father and child then instead of calling himself in or be a serial killer he became a mass murderer too.

Champaign

BlackAndWhiteKittenz wrote:

That one of him holding a glass of Champaign is so creepy and chilling almost like a gaping lizard. Interesting how this guy managed to escape killing a father and child then instead of calling himself in or be a serial killer he became a mass murderer too.

I think thats the only masskiller ever that did that. He killed the father and baby 6 days before the mass shooting. Nobody noticed anything in this time, he acted completely normal. I wonder why he waited a week, the police said they had nearly caught him because theres not many people that own the type of weapon he used for the killing, if he had lived near the forest they would have gotten him but he was like 15 or 20 miles away and they had to check in prague first.

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Only picture of David Kozák's dead body we have as of now, possibly we will never get to see it as police investigation is like closed i'm pretty sure.. But they said they couldn't identify who he was by the face as it was "disfigured" after the shotgun blow to the head.

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Only picture of David Kozák's dead body we have as of now, possibly we will never get to see it as police investigation is like closed i'm pretty sure.. But they said they couldn't identify who he was by the face as it was "disfigured" after the shotgun blow to the head.

How old is that picture? They released some info this week.

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Currings wrote:

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Only picture of David Kozák's dead body we have as of now, possibly we will never get to see it as police investigation is like closed i'm pretty sure.. But they said they couldn't identify who he was by the face as it was "disfigured" after the shotgun blow to the head.

How old is that picture? They released some info this week.

That was actually back in December or January when the police bodycam footages released

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Currings wrote:

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Only picture of David Kozák's dead body we have as of now, possibly we will never get to see it as police investigation is like closed i'm pretty sure.. But they said they couldn't identify who he was by the face as it was "disfigured" after the shotgun blow to the head.

How old is that picture? They released some info this week.

What information was released?

cannibal wrote:

glockxavier wrote:

Currings wrote:

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Only picture of David Kozák's dead body we have as of now, possibly we will never get to see it as police investigation is like closed i'm pretty sure.. But they said they couldn't identify who he was by the face as it was "disfigured" after the shotgun blow to the head.

How old is that picture? They released some info this week.

What information was released?

His diary entry about the forest murders.

police are now inclined to believe that the telegram channel did in fact belong to him...

glockxavier wrote:

cannibal wrote:

glockxavier wrote:

Currings wrote:

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Only picture of David Kozák's dead body we have as of now, possibly we will never get to see it as police investigation is like closed i'm pretty sure.. But they said they couldn't identify who he was by the face as it was "disfigured" after the shotgun blow to the head.

How old is that picture? They released some info this week.

What information was released?

His diary entry about the forest murders.

Diary entry? Like, the note found confessing to the murders? The contents of it? Or diary, as in the telegram channel?

cannibal wrote:

glockxavier wrote:

cannibal wrote:

glockxavier wrote:

Currings wrote:

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Only picture of David Kozák's dead body we have as of now, possibly we will never get to see it as police investigation is like closed i'm pretty sure.. But they said they couldn't identify who he was by the face as it was "disfigured" after the shotgun blow to the head.

How old is that picture? They released some info this week.

What information was released?

His diary entry about the forest murders.

Diary entry? Like, the note found confessing to the murders? The contents of it? Or diary, as in the telegram channel?

A detailed confession. The telegram was fake. [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

Adrenochrome wrote:

police are now inclined to believe that the telegram channel did in fact belong to him...

Why? It definitely isn't completely genuine because the writer claimed to have been inspired by recent events. Kozak planned for over a year. He could have been trolling but there are other problems with it. This doesn't make any sense though because the agents have multiple ways of figuring out if he was the poster. They tracked his phone on the day of the shooting.

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Only picture of David Kozák's dead body we have as of now, possibly we will never get to see it as police investigation is like closed i'm pretty sure.. But they said they couldn't identify who he was by the face as it was "disfigured" after the shotgun blow to the head.

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Max2024 wrote:

BlackAndWhiteKittenz wrote:

That one of him holding a glass of Champaign is so creepy and chilling almost like a gaping lizard. Interesting how this guy managed to escape killing a father and child then instead of calling himself in or be a serial killer he became a mass murderer too.

I think thats the only masskiller ever that did that. He killed the father and baby 6 days before the mass shooting. Nobody noticed anything in this time, he acted completely normal. I wonder why he waited a week, the police said they had nearly caught him because theres not many people that own the type of weapon he used for the killing, if he had lived near the forest they would have gotten him but he was like 15 or 20 miles away and they had to check in prague first.

Back in 2005 here in Czech Republic there was a serial killer who planned to do mass killing, but was caught before he managed to go on a killing rampage. Viktor Kalivoda shot 3 people in forest, got caught 4 days later. He later admitted, he planned on shooting up a subway train and that he several times rode the train with loaded weapon, but he never had courage to do through with it. Year prior he was also shooting at cows somewhere in the country to "mentally prepare"

Interesting note, he passed psychological evaluation and worked for some time as police officer, was inspired by Olga Hepnarová (Truck ramming in Prague in 1973 - 8 dead). Used legally owned Glock 34.

I think it is a case with Kozák this might be similar case. He might have trained/wanted to see how is he going to react to murdering people, so it maybe was sort of a practice to him.

Police recently released message they found on his PC that basically very coldly and analytacally goes over the two murders he commited in the forest. (Maybe someone posted it here and translated already). Thing that struck me as interesting in that message was how emotionlessly it was written, he put emphasis on how he planned the murders and how he approached them and on his bad skill with weaponry. Ended the message with his wish to be cremated and ashes spread at undisclosed location. Also mentioned the costs for funeral/cremation should be paid by money he left for such purpose and if its not enough I quote "I'm sorry".

I will do translation hopefully today. I don't think police confirmed validity od this "letter", but several media alluded to its existance and major newspapers that did not publish the letter in its full lenght do reference some of its contents in their news, so I am inclined to believe it to be legit. 


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I, signed below, would like to use this letter, to admit to double murder, committed on Friday the 15^th in Klánovice forest. I committed the act in full consciousness and conscience, no other person has helped me during planning of this act or during its commitment.

I would like to use following lines to describe timeline of my activities before, during and after the aforementioned act, so I can support my claims by real evidence.


I have arrived to Klánovice after 2 pm by train on S1 line from Masaryk railway station and headed deeper into the village via Slavětín street. Before my arrival I took some precautions, that were meant to make my potential identification as murderer harder, that being said I am unsure what effect, if any these precautions had.


First of all, whilst on my way through Prague to Masaryk railway station, I have removed my SIM card from my cellphone. To help orient myself once I was to arrive to a my destination I opted to use offline app MAPS.ME which I had found to be of sufficient quality for my intended purpose. I had als procured the most average and least standing out clothing, without any specific features with aim of making any identification from potential witnesses harder. My biggest worries were caused by my absolutely wrong choice of brown-beige backpack that in contrast to rest of the attire stood out like a sore thumb (literal idiom In Czech is: it acted like a fist on an eye) and was easily identifiable on cameras, I had however realized this mistake in my judgement when I was already at my destination so there was no room left to solve this issue. What I perceive as a next problem, that due to my personal incompetence, I was unable to get a handle on wearing contact lenses, so I had no choice but to head out with glasses, which had distinguished me in turn from other passer-bys. I had tried to counter this handicap in part by combing my hair down my forehead and by wearing glasses with thin frame, which I do not normally wear and there is no photograph with me wearing them.


After arriving to a train station I headed out on foot through the Slavětín street to a crossroad where it crosses with Lochenická stret, I turned right and continued to the forest, passing metropolitan police station and then to the left and at a crossroads in Soudní street again to the right. I had entered the forest via on of many forest footpaths near crossroad in Plačická street, I do not recall exact location unfortunately.


I managed to reach main footpath near the kids playground at Vojenská street after some time wandering through the forest. At that time the was a woman with two children at the playground. Because at that time I was quite irritated from all the wandering about the forest and the fact that I had not met living soul until that point even though the weather was pleasant, I decided to undertake the risk and choose the aforementioned three as my target. This high of a headcount had however made me quite uncertain because only weapon ready to fire I had was small-bore beretta 71 pistol with silencer tucked inside my waistband. I was not sure if 8 rounds and from 22. at that, would be – accounting for my pretty poor shooting skills – sufficient in killing all involved and so I decided to pull out heavier caliber, to be precise silenced Glock 45 that I had prepared for all circumstances in my backpack. I stood to the side of the playground by the edge of a forest footpath and in secret I tried to load and put silencer on the weapon as fast as possible. Suffice to say I was not doing good at it.
When I was finally done, I took notice of a man pushing stroller along with a dog off the leash, that was heading on the footpath to the playground. This person than turned left just before the playground.

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Turned left before the playground and went off the main pathway deeper into forest. I have evaluated the aforementioned person as far easier target than the woman with children and equipped with silenced pistol wrapped inside a plastic bag, I started pursuing him. At first I went alongside him on different pathway, then I crossed onto same pathway on which the man walked. I continued following him for some time in close proximity (not further away than 5 meters), until we arrived onto crossroad of forest pathways and he was getting ready to turn to left. At that moment I raised my weapon and in quick succession from distance of no more than 1 or 2 meters I fired several shots.

I have to say that at that moment I panicked little bit. My expectation was that I would fire 2 shots, man is going to fall down as if he was cut down and that will be it. Instead of that the man stopped in his tracks, he slowly turned to me, he stared confusingly into my face, as if he could not believe the situation he was in and in sort of imaginary attempt at defense he tried covering his face with his hands and almost as in slow motion, slumped down to the ground. This whole time I continued firing, aiming primarily at the head. I could not honestly say, how many times I managed to hit, nevertheless based on subsequent check of the magazine, I can report that I shot 8 rounds at the man. During the whole incident I have not seen the baby, because the stroller was covered with protective padding, probably against the cold weather. I shot two rounds into the stroller and paid no more attention to the situation with the baby. I have left man’s dog alone.

After that I started fleeing deeper into the forest undergrowth. Once I thought I am far enough, I stopped, hid the weapon into the backpack and continued in direction which I assumed was south. By some bizarre set of coincidences, I found myself at the very same spot by the kids playground from which I had followed the man, at this time however, there was a different woman with a different child and on the main pathway an adult male was approaching. I crossed the main pathway and continued on minor forest pathway southward, after some time however I turned off the pathway into the forest undergrowth until I reached another main pathway which lead me to Štamberk. Here I walked into a pair with a stroller which I passed and continued on railway ballast towards Úvaly in attempt to find suitable underpass. I have noticed that aforementioned pair is walking with their stroller on a path that goes parallel with railway ballast, so I thought that I could try to liquidate them too, however the sound of sirens which was coming from afar convinced me in the end to not push my luck and leave them alone. I continued on forest pathway after reaching the underpass, this time however back in the direction of Klánovice, when I was at the same level where Štemberk lies I took left and continued until I reached crossroad of Hodkovská and Velimská street. Through Velimská street I continued to the main road to the Rohožník estate bus stop, from which I took a bus to the train station in Klánovice and left the location again by train on S1 line that had arrived some time between 4 to 4:15 in the afternoon, I do not recall the exact time.

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I have placed the murder weapon along with the backpack used during the act and with other weapons in my personal possession into sealed plastic container at the rear of the plot at place of my permanent residence: Jenečská 361, Hostouň.

All my weapons, including the ones used in murder, were held in legal possession, I got my gun license specifically for purpose of murdering. Frankly, despite my technical inaptitude, I had found the exams needed for weapon license far easier than those required for drivers license.

I did not know my victim, we never came to contact. I had entered the forest already with intent to murder, honestly I would have shot up anyone, who would have crossed my path at a suitable moment.  

In conlusion, I would like to ask a small personal favor. I do not wish to be buried to family tomb due to personal reasons. I would like, if my remains were anonymously scattered at undisclosed location, so I can calmly disappear from the face of the earth and leave absolutely nothing from me behind. I am handing over money to cover the costs of the process of cremation in  another envelope. I do deeply apologize in case the amount is insufficient.



To the  police department of CR with respect


Signed Kozák

Few caveats

I do apologize for grammar, I have translated it fairly quickly, there are some mistakes, missing some articles, past tenses can be all over the place, plus translation can be little bit clunky cause Czech has different sentence structure than English and Kozák really likes to write very long complex sentences instead of several shorter.

He uses relatively stiff almost technocratic language with straight diction. From a standpoint of grammatic, I do not see anything special, he sometimes uses bit of more literally language, but that might be due to fact he was a university student and academically inclined.

I hope I do not have to mention I in any way, shape or form do not condone what he had done, I loathe him and think he is a coward and general POS and if he was a half decent human being and a man, he would have ended it alone, without any other victims.

Gun laws in Czech Republic:
When you apply for gun license, your physician has to confirm you are both physically and mentally fit to own a firearm (there is list of disorders that would prevent you from getting one, for instance being bi-polar, schizophrenic, etc), if your physician is not sure about your mental state he may or may not, depending on him, order you to undergo psychological evaluation/testing.

Once you have paper from physician, you have to pass exams, there are three parts, theoretical test which has around 30 questions out of pool of around 500, safe manipulation with weapons (depending on type of license you may be require to disassemble and show how to manipulate with pistol, shotgun or small-bore bolt action rifle) and lastly you have to be able to shoot target with pistol, 4/5 hits at 10 or 15 meters (depending on license), hitting ½ shots from shotgun and 4/5 hits with bolt action at 25 meters.

Once you have your license, depending on type you may purchase weapons, bolt action rifles longer than certain length can be bought without approval from police, but have to be registered within 7 days of purchase into central gun registry. Semi-autos, pistols, short barreled bolt action/repeater rifles need to firstly receive approval for purchase from police (shall-issue basis) and then need to be registered as any other weapon in 7 days.

I do happen to agree with Kozák that getting a gun license was easier than driving exams, but that is just me, I know quite a few people who were not able to pass the exams more than 2 or 3 times and struggled, there tend to be around 25% failure rate at these exams. Driving exams are way longer because you have to go on driving courses for several months and then you have to finish theoretical and practical exam, which may seem more tedious than one off exam when doing gun license.

Kozák visited psychologist on several occasions after being pressured by one of his female friends because he was having suicidal tendencies. However the results of these sessions did not reach Kozáks physician and he was not aware of his problems. This is something that for some reason still does not work well here in CZ, because your physician hardly gets info about his patient from other parts of healthcare system and is something which could be improved when it comes to Czech gun laws in my opinion. Other than that there was very little that could be done to stop someone like Kozák at the very least from the forest murders, what happened on university grounds is imho more complex to unpack,

approximate location of most victims
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black means dead, yellow means injured, gray means fatally injured

ANOMIC wrote:

Photo of the shooter before he snuffed himself out by jumping off:
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Baller way out

Adrenochrome wrote:

approximate location of most victims
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black means dead, yellow means injured, gray means fatally injured

His accuracy wasn't very good.

Adrenochrome wrote:

approximate location of most victims
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black means dead, yellow means injured, gray means fatally injured

Finally we got a floor plan, I wanted to download this aswell.. We need a timeline animation of the shooting too.

Currings wrote:

Adrenochrome wrote:

approximate location of most victims
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black means dead, yellow means injured, gray means fatally injured

Finally we got a floor plan, I wanted to download this aswell.. We need a timeline animation of the shooting too.

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Adrenochrome wrote:

Currings wrote:

Adrenochrome wrote:

approximate location of most victims
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black means dead, yellow means injured, gray means fatally injured

Finally we got a floor plan, I wanted to download this aswell.. We need a timeline animation of the shooting too.

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Thank you

killed in room 423: magdalena křístková, eva brožová, ad feynmann, lucie fríbertová, sára lidická, tereza skolková, eliška šimůnková, lucie špindlerová, aneta richterová

shot/killed in the hallways: adam jurák (shot in front of room 423, was transported to the hospital but died the next day), jan dlask, lenka hlávková

killed in room 417: agáta michalová

died for other reason: klára holcová - she fell to her death after escaping room 417 and trying to get down to the 3rd floor balcony

Spoiler:

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Wow, were did you find this?

Adrenochrome wrote:

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Great find! I suppose this was when he graduated from high school?

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Great find! I suppose this was when he graduated from high school?

Yup... It's a prom basically, those who are about to graduate high school wear those sashes that read "Graduate" and a year. Technically its before graduation... usually like 4-5 months prior, sometime from January to early march is known as "Prom/Ball season" when highs schools have their individual proms and there is bunch of other similar events that are not necesarilly tied to high schools.

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These pictures are from 2019, his last year in highschool.

One of those girls is most likely his best friend who send him to psychology for suicide thoughts and called the police after he killed his father

There's also new information about him published a few days ago: [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

I've seen many fucked up things on the internet, but the fact that there's a market for "zombie porn" is a new information for me lol

I was also bothered by the leakers of his letter to police splitting it up in 3 pages and put the translation into 1 picture.


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he was tall asf lol

Should Kozak be considered as normscum????

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Max2024 wrote:

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These pictures are from 2019, his last year in highschool.

One of those girls is most likely his best friend who send him to psychology for suicide thoughts and called the police after he killed his father

There's also new information about him published a few days ago: [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

I've seen many fucked up things on the internet, but the fact that there's a market for "zombie porn" is a new information for me lol

I was also bothered by the leakers of his letter to police splitting it up in 3 pages and put the translation into 1 picture.


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he was tall asf lol

6'5

glockxavier wrote:

Should Kozak be considered as normscum????

Probably, but I think hes far more interesting than most others. No bullshit schizo motive, no manifesto, he was always considered intelligent and tried his best but just had so much rage and couldnt take it.

And the rooftop shooting was creative, havent seen that one since Whitman. Paddock didnt even aim, lazy mf

glockxavier wrote:

Sanitater wrote:

Max2024 wrote:

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These pictures are from 2019, his last year in highschool.

One of those girls is most likely his best friend who send him to psychology for suicide thoughts and called the police after he killed his father

There's also new information about him published a few days ago: [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

I've seen many fucked up things on the internet, but the fact that there's a market for "zombie porn" is a new information for me lol

I was also bothered by the leakers of his letter to police splitting it up in 3 pages and put the translation into 1 picture.


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he was tall asf lol

6'5

He was a giant wtf

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Kozák's proms?

Currings wrote:

Max2024 wrote:

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Kozák's proms?

Maybe one of them is a friend or a family member..

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Kozák's proms?

Maybe one of them is a friend or a family member..

His only two known friends were women, so these are most likely them, and one of them urged him to visit a psychologist because he kept talking about suicide in 2022. This woman also first called the police to his house because he killed his father before going to the university.

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that niɢɢa on reddit really thinks he found something new