Kraków Shooting Follow-Up: 24-Year-Old Suspect Died in Hospital at About 4:30 a.m. on November 9; Six Square Victims Included One Briton and One Austrian
KRAKÓW, Poland — There were new developments on Monday in the November 7 shooting at Kraków's Main Market Square. Polish police said on November 9 that the 24-year-old suspect died in hospital at about 4:30 a.m. that morning. He had been seriously wounded in an exchange of fire with police on Saturday and had undergone at least three operations; prosecutors had been unable to question him because of his condition.
Police and prosecutors confirmed that six people were killed in the square attack — four Polish citizens, a British man and an Austrian woman. Fifteen wounded people were being treated at six Kraków hospitals, 14 of them in stable condition, while one police officer remained in critical condition. Prosecutors said that before the suspect was found on Saturday evening, the bodies of his parents and younger sister had been discovered at the family home in Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski, about 150 kilometres north-east of Kraków: his father, 53, his mother, 52, and his sister, 21, all with gunshot wounds. Poland's National Prosecutor's Office believes the same man was responsible for both incidents and that the three relatives were killed on November 7. Including the suspect himself, the death toll connected to the events stands at ten.
Eryk Stasielak, a prosecutor at the National Prosecutor's Office, said proceedings directly concerning the deceased suspect would be discontinued, while the investigation into the full circumstances, the motive and any possible accomplices continues. Daniel Prokopowicz, spokesman for the District Prosecutor's Office in Kielce, gave the identities and causes of death of the three relatives. Autopsies of all nine victims were scheduled to begin on Monday and could take about two days because of the complexity of the injuries, prosecutors said.
The National Prosecutor's Office formally classified the square attack as a suspected terrorist offence on Sunday. Prosecutors said the motive has not been confirmed; the interior minister said over the weekend that the initial investigation indicated far-right sympathies, and a government spokesman later backtracked on that report. Both prosecutors and police said the inquiry continues despite the suspect's death.
来源链接：
- https://nexuseuropa.eu/en/article/krakow-shooting-suspect-dies-in-hospital-as-prosecutors-investigate-nine-deaths
- https://africannewsagency.com/poland-gunman-dies-after-deadly-krakow-shooting-that-killed-six/
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