CETINJE, Montenegro — Surprise and dismay prevailed in Montenegro on Thursday after a gunman fatally shot 12 other people, together with two youngsters, in a western the town earlier than killing himself. No less than 4 others had been wounded within the taking pictures rampage in Cetinje on Wednesday that adopted a bar brawl, officers stated. This was once the second one such incident within the the town prior to now 3 years. The shooter, recognized as 45-year-old Aco Martinović, killed the landlord of the bar, the bar proprietor’s youngsters and his personal members of the family, officers have stated. The attacker, who first fled after the rampage, was once later positioned and surrounded by means of police. He died after taking pictures himself within the head, Inside Minister Danilo Šaranović stated. Citizens of Cetinje, a the town of a few 17,000 other people, had been surprised and grief-stricken. “I knew all of those other people in my view, additionally the attacker. I believe when he did that, he was once out of his thoughts,” stated Vesko Milošević, a retiree from Cetnje. “What do I do know, he went from position to put and killed other people. Its a disaster.”Vanja Popović, whose kinfolk are a number of the sufferers, stated that “we’re all in surprise.”“How can I think after this?” Popović stated. “No person anticipated it. You’ll’t even ask any individual the rest.”Police had dispatched a different unit to seek for the attacker within the the town, which is positioned about 30 kilometers (18 miles) northwest of Podgorica, the capital. All roads out and in of town had been blocked for hours as police swarmed the streets. Šaranović stated that the shooter had died whilst being taken to a health center within the capital and succumbed from the “severity of his accidents.”Officers have stated that the attacker was once on the bar all over the day with different visitors when the brawl erupted. He then went house, introduced again a weapon and opened fireplace at round 5:30 p.m. Prosecutor Andrijana Nastić stated Thursday that the attacker went to 6 places right through the taking pictures rampage, together with the final one, the place he shot himself. 4 males had been killed on the bar, Nastić stated. The shooter then moved directly to every other location the place he killed 4 extra other people, after which two youngsters at a 3rd website. He then went directly to kill two extra other people at two different places earlier than ultimately taking pictures himself, Nastić stated. “Additional investigation will decide the precise instances of the occasions,” she added. The federal government has declared 3 days of nationwide mourning beginning on Thursday, and all deliberate New 12 months’s festivities had been canceled all over the rustic. Top Minister Milojko Spajić stated that the federal government might attempt to impose a complete ban on guns “as a result of we will have to ask ourselves after this who must be allowed to have weapons in Montenegro.”The small Adriatic Sea country, which has a inhabitants of round 620,000 other people, is understood for its gun tradition and many of us historically have guns. In August 2022 in Cetinje, which is Montenegro’s historical capital, an attacker killed 10 other people, together with two youngsters, earlier than he was once shot and killed by means of a passerby.Police have stated that the suspect in Wednesday’s taking pictures won a suspended sentence in 2005 for violent habits and had appealed his newest conviction for unlawful guns ownership. Montenegrin media have reported that he was once identified for erratic and violent habits.“As a substitute of vacation pleasure … we now have been gripped by means of unhappiness over the lack of blameless lives,” Montenegro’s President Jakov Milatović stated in a publish on X.___Jovana Gec and Dušan Stojanović contributed to this document from Belgrade, Serbia.
