Leskovac shootings

Leskovac shootings
Location	Leskovac, Serbia and Montenegro
Date	July 26-27 2002
Attack type	Spree shooting
Weapons	Automatic rifle
Deaths	7
Injured	4
Perpetrator	Dragan Čedić

Leskovac shootings is a spree shooting that occurred on July 26-27 2002 in Leskovac, Serbia and Montenegro. Dragan Čedić shot dead 7 people and wounded 4 others.

Shootings

On July 26, 2002, at 11:55 pm in Leskovac, Dragan Čedić shot dead a man and wounded another with an automatic rifle at the Sedam billiard club. Five minutes later he went to his wife's house. He first shot his wife and her sister, then shot another of her sisters and her sister's husband. He shot a neighbor near the house and wounded a neighbor. Then he went to the house where his wife's aunt and mother lived. There he shot his wife's aunt and wounded her aunt's husband and son. The shootings ended at 12:20 a.m. on July 27, 2002. He fled after the shooting. Police searched for him for days, but could not find him. That night they found his car. People reported seeing him in various places, but none of these reports were actually true. His body was found in a forest near Leskovac on September 1, 2002. He shot himself with a pistol at about 11 a.m. on July 27. A pistol and a grenade were found near him.

Perpetrator

Dragan Čedić.

Dragan Čedić (Serbian Cyrillic: Драган Чедић) (32) lived in Leskovac. He was unemployed and lived selling goods in the smuggling market. Colleagues described him as a calm man. He took part in the Kosovo War. Due to frequent quarrels and divorces, he broke up with the woman and she filed for divorce a year before the shooting. In a year of shooting, he said he would kill his wife if she did not return to him.