Chilling recording of Belgrade school massacre: One shot, pause, then another, and then, a burst of fire

Photo: Nikola Tomic, Telegraf

After a mass shooting at the elementary school Vladislav Ribnikar in Vracar, a central Belgrade municipality, an audio recording of the massacre appeared on social networks, taken by a student who himself witnessed the tragedy.

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The sounds of death that echoed through the school, when K.K. killed eight students and a security guard, and wounded six more students and a history teacher, will remain forever recorded.

In the chilling recording, first one shot is heard, then there's a pause, then another, and then a series of shots with minimal pauses in between.

At one point the screams of children fearing for their lives can be heard, and then the shots again...

Jezivi audio snimak tokom pucnjave na Vračaru u OŠ "Vladislav Ribnikar" pic.twitter.com/rwKYrL1PXA— Kalabaster (@KalabasterJak) May 4, 2023

The great tragedy happened on Wednesday around 08:40 when a minor, K. K. (13), a 7th grade student, killed 8 children attending this school and a security guard, and injured 6 more students and a history teacher.

The boy called the police himself and told them what he had done. He was immediately arrested, and after that his father and mother were brought in for questioning.

K.K. took the pistol from his father, from a safe.

As explained yesterday in detail by the head of the Belgrade police, Veselin Milic, the minor K.K. was planning the crime for a month. K.K. had been planning this for a long time, he did not disclose the motive. He took the firearm from his father's apartment and brought it (to school) along with four Molotov cocktails.

"We have no words in the face of this tragedy. A huge human tragedy. This morning around 08:40, Ivanka Jovanovic, the assistant principal, called the emergency department of the Belgrade police and reported that a child had entered the school with a firearm and was shooting randomly. Police patrols were immediately dispatched. After that, at 08:42, an unidentified person who introduced himself as K.K. also called and said that he had shot several people. When the police arrived at the scene, it was determined that a firearm had been used by the boy who called our service. Eight students, seven girls and one boy had died," Milic said on Wednesday.

He added that the lives of two children were still in danger.

"Immediately after the said event, we detained the perpetrator. The weapon with which the crime was committed andthe four Molotov cocktails were also found. He had a list of children he planned to kill. The motive has not yet been established. He did not tell us. He chose the history classroom because it was near the entrance to the school, and his own class, VII/2, had the first period there. He took the pistols from his father's apartment. He put them in a bag he had prepared, along with four Molotov cocktails. Upon arriving at the school, he immediately fired at the security guard, after that he turned to a girl who was on duty and, then to one who was standing at a table, and another girl by a piano, shot at them and took their lives.

Then he continued towards the history classroom, on the way replacing the clip, (entered the room and) shot at the teacher and the other students. Then he left the classroom, went to the school yard, took out a clip, threw it away, and called the police. He stated that he planned this himself. There is the list of children he planned to kill. He himself worked out the plan for entering and leaving the school and, as he said, identified his priority targets.

The schematics looks like something out of a video game or a horror movie, which indicates that he planned in detail by school grade how to enter each classroom and how to eliminate which child and how many - from (classes) VII/2, VIII/4, VI/4, VIII/2, VII/4 and VII/3, namely 1, 4, 2, 6 and 6 (students)... He determined the priority targets. He planned the number (of students) he was going to kill in each class," Milic told a press conference.

The policeman also said that he had taken part in thousands of crime scene investigations, and that this was something unheard of in Serbian society. He pointed out that the question is for the whole system - what should we do to prevent something similar from happening again.

The boy's father, V.K., was arrested yesterday. Interior Minister Bratislav Gasic said that the father told the police that both guns were locked in a safe under a code, but apparently the child had the code.

The wounded children are treated the University Children's Clinic in Tirsova Street in Belgrade and at the Emergency Center of the University Clinical Center of Serbia. Two children's lives are at risk: a girl who was shot in the head and underwent surgery, and a boy who is at the Emergency Center.

Because of this tragedy, three days of mourning have been declared in Serbia, starting on Friday, May 5, until Sunday, May 7.

(Telegraf.rs)