Trstje shooting
| Trstje shooting | |
|---|---|
| Location | Trstje and Gornja Lipnica, Tuzla, Tuzla Canton, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| Date | May 29, 2008 |
| Target | Relatives and neighbors |
Attack type | Mass shooting |
| Weapons | Pistol |
| Deaths | 6 |
| Injured | 1 |
| Perpetrator | Tomislav Petrović |
Trstje shooting is a mass shooting that occurred on May 29, 2008, at Trstje and Gornja Lipnica, Tuzla, Tuzla Canton, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Tomislav Petrović shot dead 6 of his relatives and neighbors and wounded another.[1]
Shooting
At around 6 a.m. on May 29, 2008 in Trstje, Tomislav Petrović started firing from a pistol at a bus stop. He fired at the bus from the outside, then got into it and continued firing. In the bus, he killed three passengers and wounded the driver in the chest and arm. Leaving the bus, he walked down the street to a nearby house where he killed one person. And then killed two more people on the doorstep of this house. He then got into a car and followed the locals who were trying to take the injured driver to the hospital. He rammed them with his car but they managed to escape from him. Then he went to Gornja Lipnica. There he tried to set fire to his cousin's car, and shot at parked cars. Police arrested him after he ran out of ammunition. The shooting lasted 25 minutes.[2][3][1][4][5]
Perpetrator
Although he was mentally ill and was being treated in a mental hospital before the shooting, he was licensed to own a pistol.[2][1]
Tomislav Petrović was initially sentenced to 40 years in prison, but was later overturned. He was recognized as a paranoid schizophrenic and was sent to a mental hospital for treatment.[1]
References
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- ^ "Najbrutalnija ubistva u Bosni i Hercegovini".
- ^ "Najjeziviji zločini: Donosimo spisak višestrukih ubistava koja su šokirala BiH".
- ^ "Brutalna ubistva: Pet najvećih zločina u ovoj deceniji koji su zgrozili javnost u BiH".