The Czech Republic is experiencing a national tragedy, 24 hours after the attack of 24-year-old David Kozak at Charles University, who killed 14 people and injured at least 25, before killing himself. His motives still remain unknown, although he himself had well prepared his attack, as his messages on social networks betray.

Local media describe the 24-year-old gunman who bloodied Prague as a diligent student and particularly introverted. He had previously announced that he would kill himself, with authorities looking for him in another university building. From the investigations of the authorities, it is also revealed that before the massacre at the University of Charles he had killed his father, while the authorities are now investigating his involvement in two more murders, a 32-year-old father and his two-month-old daughter, with a gun found in Kozak’s home matched the bullets found in the two bodies.

The Czech Republic remains mired in mourning, with scenes of panic, terror and despair still haunting the heart of Prague as police authorities try to decipher the motives of the just 24-year-old history graduate student. More and more information is coming to light by the hour with police recently announcing that the 24-year-old’s bloody rampage had finally begun a week ago when he opened fire and killed a 32-year-old man and his two-month-old daughter in the woods near his village, a few kilometers away from the Czech capital. According to ballistics, the bullets next to the bodies belonged to a weapon found in the perpetrator’s house. Kozak’s motives remain unknown, with the country’s interior minister citing personal problems, depression and frustration.

The 24-year-old has imitated other attacks such as that of 14-year-old Alina Afanashkina in Bryansk, Russia, and authorities are now on the lookout for possible copycats of his own.

Testimonies describing terror, despair and panic follow one another with the Czech authorities still not releasing the names of the victims but with the Department of Musicology announcing that among the dead in the deadliest mass attack in the country is its teacher and head, Lena Hlavkova, mother of two minor boys.

For their part, the Czech authorities are investigating the motives that pushed the perpetrator to the murderous attack.

Only a few hours after the tragedy, late Thursday night, an unknown man contacted the police with a threat that he was inspired by Kozak and intended to take a gun and kill. But he was soon discovered and arrested.