Suspect in Kumodrazu Murder Arrested in Budva
Montenegro's police arrested in Budva a 22-year-old Serbian citizen sought by Interpol Belgrade over June's murder in a Kumodrazu cafe; his target in Budva overpowered him himself.
Montenegro’s police arrested D.Dz. (22), a citizen of Serbia, in Budva. He had been sought by Interpol’s Belgrade bureau (NCB Interpol Belgrade) over a murder committed in June in Belgrade’s Kumodrazu neighborhood. According to a statement from the Montenegrin police, the suspect tried to kill a man with a firearm in Budva, and the intended victim overpowered him himself before police arrived at the scene.
What Happened in Budva
The attack took place on September 8 around 12:30 PM at a hospitality venue in Budva. The target was Ognjen Kazanegra of Budva.
Yesterday around 12:30 PM, he came to a hospitality venue in Budva, allegedly with the intent of using a firearm to kill O.K.
the Montenegrin police said in the statement announcing the arrest.
According to the same statement, Kazanegra himself stopped the attack and overpowered D.Dz. before police were called. Officers from the Budva security department found the suspect at the scene and took him into custody. They seized from him a nine-millimeter Smith & Wesson pistol with a round in the chamber and another 12 rounds in the magazine. He was also found carrying an ID card issued in another country under a different name, which was determined to be forged.
The competent state prosecutor at the Higher State Prosecutor’s Office in Podgorica was notified of the incident immediately. After his identity was verified and a forensic investigation was carried out, the prosecutor ordered D.Dz. detained on suspicion of attempted aggravated murder, illegal possession of firearms and explosive materials, and forgery of documents. The suspect will be brought before the prosecutor in Podgorica along with a criminal complaint.
The Link to the Kumodrazu Murder
According to the Montenegrin police statement, D.Dz. had been the subject of an international warrant issued by NCB Interpol Belgrade since June 29, 2026, on suspicion that he and another person committed an aggravated murder in Belgrade against D.V. According to reporting by the Podgorica newspaper Vijesti, carried by N1, D.Dz. had actually been wanted under that warrant since June 22, the day a man was killed at a cafe in Kumodrazu. The sources do not agree on exactly when the warrant took effect: Montenegro’s Interior Ministry ties it to June 29, while Vijesti reports June 22.
The victim was Darko Veskovic Prika, who was killed on June 22 at the “Kumodrazu 2” cafe in the Belgrade neighborhood of the same name. The shooting happened around 3:40 PM, when an unknown man opened fire, wounding one person and killing another. Vuk Music, previously convicted with a final verdict in the killing of football fan Velibor Dunjic, was wounded in the same shooting.
After the murder, the Belgrade Higher Public Prosecutor’s Office opened an investigation against N.K., suspected of “treacherously taking the life of the victim D.V. and endangering the lives of four other victims, patrons of the venue,” while D.Dz. is accused of helping him. The prosecution said in a statement:
N.K. and D.Dz. are on the run, which is why the prosecution has proposed to the pre-trial judge of the Belgrade Higher Court that they be placed in custody and that a warrant be issued for their arrest.
Evidentiary proceedings were also carried out against M.T.E. and D.V., suspected of committing the crime of assisting an offender after the fact. Both were questioned by the prosecutor handling the case, who then proposed to the pre-trial judge that they be placed in custody. According to its own statement, the Belgrade Higher Court ordered N.K. and D.Dz. held in custody for up to 30 days and ordered an international warrant issued.
Montenegro’s police said the investigation into the attack in Budva is not finished and that work continues on identifying everyone who may have taken part in planning and carrying out the attempted murder, as well as anyone who provided logistical support to the internationally wanted suspect while he was hiding from the warrant.
This outlet has not previously reported on the Kumodrazu murder or on the warrant issued for D.Dz.
