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The 24-year-old suspect in Poland’s deadliest shooting since the fall of communism died in a hospital Monday, two days after he was critically wounded in a shootout with police, authorities said.
Regional police said the Polish man was suspected of opening fire Saturday in central Krakow, killing six people and wounding about 15 others.
“We inform you that the perpetrator of the tragic events died this morning in the hospital,” police said in a post on X.
Authorities said the suspect had been “fascinated by far-right ideologies,” while Prime Minister Donald Tusk described the attack as an act of “terrorism.”
The gunman drove onto Krakow’s Main Market Square on Saturday and opened fire, killing six people, including two foreigners, and wounding at least 15 others.
“Until now in Poland we haven’t had such drastic cases of terrorism; that’s what we have to call this cruel attack on people’s lives here in Krakow,” Tusk told reporters.
Authorities described the shooting as the deadliest in Poland since the end of communist rule in 1989.
The gunman is also suspected of killing three members of his family before the Krakow attack.
Hours after the shooting, police found the bodies of two women and a man at the suspect’s home in Ostrowiec Swietokrzyski, about 150 kilometers (93 miles) northeast of Krakow.
Authorities later identified the victims as the suspect’s parents and sister.
“There is much to suggest that they are members of the suspect’s immediate family,” Tusk said after the bodies were discovered.
The three deaths bring the suspected total number of people killed by the gunman to nine.
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