Teenager who killed 8 children, guard at Serbia school had list of students to target, police say

The shooter first killed a guard at the school in central Belgrade and then three students in a hallway, according to senior police official Veselin Milic. He then entered a classroom - apparently choosing it simply because it was close to the entrance - and opened fire again, Milic said.

Mass shootings are extremely rare in Serbia and in the wider Balkan region; none were reported at schools in recent years. In the last mass shooting, a Balkan war veteran in 2013 killed 13 people in a central Serbian village. Police said Kecmanovic used his father's handgun, which was licensed. Interior Minister Bratislav Gasic said the gun was kept in a safe but the teen apparently knew the code. He said the father was also arrested.

"I was able to hear the shooting. It was nonstop," said a student who was in a sports class when gunfire erupted elsewhere in the building. Her mother asked that her name be withheld because of her age. "I didn't know what was happening. We were receiving some messages on the phone.""He was not so open with everybody. Surely I wasn't expecting this to happen," she said.

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