Gunman at Prague university who killed 14 was student - police - BBC News
Police also believe the shooter was connected to two murders in a forest near the city last week.
The shooter had been due to attend a lecture in another university building Image caption: The shooter had been due to attend a lecture in another university building

Widely named as David K, the 24-year-old behind the killing of more than 15 people is said by police to have left the village of Hostoun 20km (12 miles) west of Prague, after shooting his father.

He had been a student at Charles University's Institute of World History based at the arts faculty in Palach Square.

And he was clearly an engaged student. Earlier this year a man by the same name won a prize from Prague's Polish Institute for a bachelor's thesis on revolutionary events in 1846 in Krakow and other areas that are now part of Poland.

Police say he was due to attend a lecture this afternoon in a separate university building in Celetna Street, a few minutes' walk away from the arts faculty and just off Prague's Old Town Square. Officers had gone there looking for him before the shooting took place.

What we don't know is what took him instead to the main arts faculty building carrying a gun.

Police Chief Martin Vondrasek said he had gone to Prague to take his life and that he was "inspired by a horrific event, a similar event, abroad".

Although unconfirmed, that event is being interpreted as a 7 December shooting in Bryansk in southern Russia, when a 14-year-old girl took a shotgun into her school and killed a classmate before turning the gun on herself.