Novodvorská: A man stabbed two women, he chose them at random
A number of police officers and paramedics went out to the horrific event on Saturday night. In Novodvorská Street, the perpetrator pulled out a knife and attacked two women. According to Blesk, he chose both at random, this was also confirmed by the police on Sunday morning.
“The case is being handled by detectives from the homicide department for suspected attempted murder. According to initial findings, neither the victim nor the attacker (a citizen of the Czech Republic, born in 1988) knew each other and it was an unprovoked attack. One of the versions is that the man could have attacked because of his mental state,” they said on Twitter.
“One of the women suffered serious injuries, was put into artificial sleep and transferred to a traumatology hospital in Motol. The second woman suffered minor injuries, paramedics took her to the Thomayer hospital,” Jana Poštová, spokeswoman for the Prague paramedics, told Blesk on Saturday evening.
The attacker ran away immediately after the attack. The police caught up with him in the street a short distance from the crime scene, surrounded him and were about to arrest him. But the man, who was still holding a bloody knife in his hand, ran towards them and was about to attack them too! The police did not hesitate and started shooting at the dangerous offender. “Means of coercion, including firearms, had to be used,” commented police spokesman Richard Hrdina.
When the neutralized man fell to the ground, the police immediately began to revive him. The witness, who saw everything from the window of her apartment, described the procedure: “The police resuscitated the man before the ambulance arrived. From the window we saw them doing heart massage. Great physical endurance, in total it could have been 15 minutes with an ambulance. All fast, organized, polite, no panic, good job,” she wrote on Twitter.
Despite the hard work of the police and rescuers, the attacker could not be saved in the end, the man died. “It was really an extremely difficult situation. We informed the General Inspection of the Security Forces (GIBS) about the operation,” added the police officers, saying that GIBS is now dealing with the use of service weapons.
The perpetrator stabbed two women on Novodvorská, and the police shot him a short distance away. (December 17, 2022)
Author: Blesk: Václav Burian