On 21 December 2023, a mass shooting occurred at Charles University's Faculty of Arts main building in central Prague, Czech Republic. A lone gunman, 24-year-old postgraduate student David Kozák, kill
Faculty of Arts, Charles University and Mánes Bridge, the site of the shooting
The Faculty of Arts, Charles University main building at Jan Palach Square
Police gradually shut down a large part of Prague's city centre during the shooting
Candles of remembrance in front of the closed building of Faculty of Arts on Jan Palach Square, few weeks after the attack
Glock is a brand of polymer-framed, short-recoil-operated, locked-breech semi-automatic pistols designed and produced by Austrian manufacturer Glock GmbH. The firearm, designed by company founder Gast
2023 Prague shootings
…and switched off his phone while changing transport on the other side of Prague. He carried a brown beige backpack and was armed with two handguns—a Glock 45 and a Beretta 71. Upon entering the forest, Kozák initially wanted to shoot a woman with two children whom he saw at a playground along the main forest…
A first-generation Glock 17 adopted by the Norwegian Armed Forces under the P80 designation
A "first-generation" Glock 17 with the slide locked back, displaying its vertical barrel tilt
A "second-generation" Glock 17, identified by the checkering on the front and rear straps of the pistol grip and trigger guard
A "third-generation" Glock 17C, identified by the addition of an extra cross pin above the trigger, finger grooves, a reshaped extractor that serves as a loaded chamber indicator, and an accessory rail