Onet reveals identity of shooter in downtown Krakow

The gunman who opened the shooting in downtown Krakow is most likely a former serviceman, sources at the Ministry of National Defense told Onet.

According to the publication, the shooter is Michal O. from Ostrovets-Sventokrzyski. He had permission to own two types of firearms.

He was driving a car registered to his 52-year-old father, a resident of the Swentokshie Voivodeship. The father holds a firearm permit and owns a total of 11 guns. Neither the father nor the son had a previous conviction.

Earlier, the Interior Ministry said that the man who carried out the shooting was a Polish citizen. Katarzyna Cislo, a representative of the voivodeship police department in Krakow, told TVN24 that the detainee “was dressed in military-style clothes and had a long-barreled weapon of a military type.” It may have been an AR-15 semi-automatic carbine. Other weapons and ammunition were also seized in his vehicle, Cislo said.

On November 7, a car drove into the Main Market Square in Krakow at high speed. Inside was a masked man who opened fire on people with firearms.

As a result of the shooting, six people were killed, another 15 were injured, the Assailant is in hospital: during his detention he received a gunshot wound. His condition is stable.