Police named the shooter as Kosta Kecmanovic and said he had been a pupil at the school in the centre of the Serbian capital since 2019. They said he had used two of his father's guns for the shooting and may have been plotting the attack for a month.
The Belgrade police chief, Veselin Milić, said the teenager also had two petrol bombs and "made a list of kids he planned to kill and their classes". Milić identified the dead pupils as seven girls and a boy born between 2009 and 2011. "The sketch looks like something from a video game or a horror movie, which indicates that he planned in detail, by classes, whom to liquidate," he added.
The suspect, who was arrested in the school playground after confessing to the shooting and led away with his head covered, fired first at the security guard and three girls in a hallway, then walked into a history class and shot the teacher and five pupils, Milić said.
Because he is under 14, Kecmanovic can't face criminal charges, the Belgrade prosecutor's office said. He will be placed in a psychiatric institution. His parents have also been arrested.
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