Michal Oksinski, 24, a turner by profession, was identified as the perpetrator of yesterday afternoon's massacre in the country's second city and had a clean criminal record, a valid gun license, and lived with his family in Ostrowiec Swietokrzyski, a town located about two hours' drive from Krakow.

The young man had studied mechanics at a vocational school. As a boy, former classmates and a local radio station reported, he socialized little. He often drew pictures of people hanging or armed during class: "And when we asked him about it, he said it was an attack on a school and that he was the assailant," one woman said.

Before his rampage in Krakow, the 24-year-old man massacred his family . His 53-year-old father, 52-year-old mother, and 20-year-old sister were found dead in the apartment where he lived, following his indiscriminate attack on the crowd in Krakow's Main Market Square, which left 6 dead and 16 injured .

When they were found, all three bodies showed signs of gunshot wounds, investigators said. Michal O., along with his father, was a member of a shooting range, Polish media reported.

"Often on Sundays, while I was busy in the kitchen, I would see a man, a father and his son, getting into a car, both dressed in camouflage, carrying bags. But I never imagined that those bags could presumably contain weapons," a neighbor of the family told reporters, quoted by TVN24. "I didn't have the slightest suspicion that my neighbor could turn out to be a torturer, a murderer. I had no such suspicion," he added.

"Ultra-nationalist"

Interior Minister Marcin Kierwinski said at a press conference that initial investigations indicate that he was "an ultra-nationalist" inspired by "far-right ideologies," although this information "still needs to be fully verified."

The "hero" policemen

Among the injured were two police officers, Jakub Kulik and Artur Moranski, who intervened to stop the attacker. One of them is in critical condition after being shot three times while attempting to restrain the 24-year-old, as evidenced by a dramatic video showing the attacker on the ground and the officer above him trying to restrain him before collapsing from the bullets.

Justice Minister Waldemar Zurek has launched an appeal for blood donations for the "hero" police officer: "Officer Jakub Kulik, who faced an armed attacker without hesitation, is fighting for his life in the hospital. He has a compromised lung and needs every possible assistance."

A single drop of blood. Blood type AB Rh+ is required. In addition to Sergeant Kulik, another police sergeant, Artur Morański, who and his colleague arrested the attacker, was also injured. If it hadn't been for them, the death toll in the Krakow massacre would have been unimaginable. They confronted a terrorist armed with an automatic weapon, returned fire, and stopped the killer by shielding themselves with their bodies.

(Unioneonline)

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