On 2 July 2016, a Serbian man killed five people and injured twenty-two others after he opened fire with an assault rifle in a café in the village of
Žitište
Žitište ( sr-Cyrl, Житиште; ; hu, Begaszentgyörgy) is a town and municipality located in the Central Banat District of the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia. The town has a population of 2,898, while Žitište municipality has 1 ...
, in the
Central Banat District of
Vojvodina
Vojvodina ( sr-Cyrl, Војводина}), officially the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, is an autonomous province that occupies the northernmost part of Serbia. It lies within the Pannonian Basin, bordered to the south by the national capital ...
,
Serbia
Serbia (, ; Serbian: , , ), officially the Republic of Serbia (Serbian: , , ), is a landlocked country in Southeastern and Central Europe, situated at the crossroads of the Pannonian Basin and the Balkans. It shares land borders with Hungar ...
. The perpetrator was later identified as Siniša Zlatić ( sr-Cyrl, Синиша Златић).
Shooting
On the nights of July 1st, 2016 and July 2nd, 2016, Zlatić visited a café during a local festival, where he noticed his estranged wife with a group of friends. He returned home and retrieved an
AK-47
The AK-47, officially known as the ''Avtomat Kalashnikova'' (; also known as the Kalashnikov or just AK), is a gas-operated assault rifle that is chambered for the 7.62×39mm cartridge. Developed in the Soviet Union by Russian small-arms d ...
assault rifle he illegally owned. He then returned to the café and at about 1:40 a.m. local time started shooting into the air. The attacker then shot his wife and another woman dead before randomly shooting other diners in the café, killing three men and injuring 22 other people. Café diners then grabbed the gun from the attacker as he tried to run away. Police located in the vicinity quickly apprehended the gunman.
Aftermath
On 1 March 2017, the high court in
Zrenjanin
Zrenjanin ( sr-Cyrl, Зрењанин, ; hu, Nagybecskerek; ro, Becicherecu Mare; sk, Zreňanin; german: Großbetschkerek) is a city and the administrative center of the Central Banat District in the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbi ...
sentenced Zlatić to 40 years in prison, the longest possible sentence according to Serbian laws.
See also
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Gun politics in Serbia
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List of massacres in Serbia
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List of rampage killers in Europe
This section of the list of rampage killers contains those cases that occurred in Europe. The list does not include school massacres; workplace killings; religious, political, or racial crimes; or mass murders that took place primarily in a do ...
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