Kragujevac: Man, 40, Wounded in Shooting, Suspect Arrested

A 40-year-old man, identified by the initials M.C., was seriously wounded this morning, September 28, in a shooting in the Novi Bubanj neighborhood of Kragujevac. According to initial information from the Higher Public Prosecutor’s Office in Kragujevac, the shooting followed a conflict involving several people.

Sources disagree on the exact time and location of the incident. Kurir, Sd.rs, Telegraf, Mondo and Nova report that the shooting happened around 8:10 a.m., near a bar behind the “Index pica” building. Tanjug and Una, on the other hand, place the incident around 9 a.m., on Milovan Gusic Street.

What led up to the shooting?

According to information from the Higher Public Prosecutor’s Office in Kragujevac, cited by Mondo, the armed clash was preceded by an argument. The prosecutor’s office said in a statement:

“The armed clash near the bar behind the ‘Index pica’ building was preceded by a fierce argument and a physical altercation involving several people.”

The attacker, according to the same sources, pulled out a firearm at one point and fired several shots at the 40-year-old man. He suffered serious, life-threatening gunshot wounds.

The wounded man was rushed to the Emergency Center of the Kragujevac University Clinical Center, where he immediately underwent surgery. According to the latest available information, doctors are still fighting for his life.

Residents of nearby buildings heard the shots but did not see the details of the incident.

“The incident happened near a bar, we heard a gunshot but we don’t know anything else. Police arrived right away and secured the scene of the shooting,” witnesses at the scene said.

Was the suspect arrested?

Media reports differ here too, and the gap is chronological. Tanjug and Una initially reported that police were searching for the attacker, suspected of attempted murder. Later that same day, Telegraf, Mondo and Nova reported that the suspect had been arrested shortly after the shooting. The suspect’s initials and age have not been officially released.

Vesna Perovic, a prosecutor from the Higher Public Prosecutor’s Office in Kragujevac, went to the scene. Criminal inspectors and forensic experts from the Kragujevac Police Department carried out the on scene investigation. According to media reports from throughout the morning, a heightened police presence remained at the scene of the shooting.

The investigation is ongoing. Its task is to determine the exact motive behind the conflict, the sequence of events before the shooting, and the role of any other people involved in the clash, if there were more than two. As of this writing, Serbia’s Interior Ministry (MUP) has not published an official statement on the arrest.