The 24-year-old man responsible for the mass shooting on Saturday in the Main Market Square of Krakow has died at the beginning of this Monday in the hospital where he had been admitted in critical condition, the Polish Police have confirmed.
The attacker was being kept under guard at the medical center after being injured by shots from the officers who brought him down following the massacre, and he had undergone several emergency operations that ultimately failed to save his life.
The death of the suspect coincides with the second day of national mourning declared by the President of Poland, Karol Nawrocki, and backed by the Prime Minister, Donald Tusk, in remembrance of the victims.
The attack left six dead in the central Krakow square, including a British citizen, and more than a dozen injured of different nationalities, including several Police officers.
At the same time, the Polish National Prosecutor’s Office is analyzing the case as a possible act of terrorism, understanding that the attacker intended “to seriously intimidate many people”.
In addition, the authorities attribute to the same man the murders of his parents and his sister, whose lifeless bodies and gunshot wounds were located by the Police at the family home in Ostrowiec Swietokrzyski hours after the attack in the tourist city.