Gunman killed at least 10 people in Montenegro, then committed suicide

An armed and drunk man killed at least 10 people this Wednesday, January 1, 2025, including two minors, in the south of Montenegro and later committed suicide with a shot to the head, reported the authorities of the Balkan country.

The Police initially reported that all the victims died in a restaurant, but several of them They would have been shot down at different points in a village near the city of Cetinje.

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The suspect, identified by the armed body as “AM, 45 years old”, fled after the act. But once the police surrounded him and ordered him to “hand over his weapon, “a bullet was shot in the head”said police chief Lazar Scepanovic.

“We tried to transport him to a hospital, but succumbed to his injuries,” he added.

The drama began around 4:30 p.m. GMT, Scepanovic previously explained in a press conference.

“After getting into a fight with a client with whom he spent much of the day, and while he had drunk large quantities of alcohol, he went home, He grabbed a gun and killed four people.”he detailed.

He then went “to three other places where he killed the Martinovic family, a member of his own family and two children aged 10 and 13. He tried to kill four other people whose lives are no longer in danger,” Scepanovic continued.

The Minister of the Interior, Danilo Saranovic, had reported that the suspect “took the lives of at least ten people, including two minors from the Vuletic family”, which owns the aforementioned restaurant.

What measure did they take in Montenegro after the multiple murder?

The government declared three days of mourning in the small country of 630,000 inhabitants of the Balkan Peninsula.

Organized crime and corruption have long plagued Montenegro, but police said the shooting was unprovoked for “clashes between organized criminal groups.”

Security forces urged residents not to leave their homes.