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The Jabukovac killings
occurred July 27, 2007, when the villager Nikola Radosavljević
took a hunting rifle and shot dead five men and four women in the
Serbian village of Jabukovac, near the border with Romania and
Bulgaria. Three other people were injured, two of them seriously.
Police used helicopters to find Nikola
Radosavljević, who was traced to a nearby cemetery. He was injured
but his condition was not life threatening.
Timeline
At 5:00 PM, Nikola was eating with his wife
Jelena. After an argument he punched her in the face and Jelena
fell down. Nikola jumped into a well. By 5:30 PM, Dragoslav Badžikić
got him out of the well. A few minutes later, Radosavljević got
his hunting rifle and walked out into the street.
Radosavljević then shot and killed a number of
people in the vicinity. On the street at one point, Radosavljević
met an older woman. He asked her in Romanian if she practiced
magic. When she said no, he let her live.
At 1:30 AM the following day, Radosavljević was
arrested and taken to Niš hospital. He was subsequently taken to a
prison mental hospital in Belgrade where he was pronounced insane.
He is currently serving a lifetime sentence in the same facility.
List of victims
House number 87 - Veljko Đorđević (58),
Marina Kutkuregović (70) his mother in law, and Dragan Đorđević
(22).
Branislav Borongić (57) and Draginja Borongić
(55).
Pera Vujić, Radosavljević's cousin, wounded.
House number 83 - Srđan Badžikić (15) and
wounded Siniša Badžikić (36).
Branislav Badejević (22) and wounded Vanuca
Badejević (70).
House number 71 - he shot dead Jelica Banković
(37).
House number 80 - he shot dead the mother-in-law
of his brother, Anika Čogić (62).
Wikipedia.org
The Jabukovac
killings occurred July 27th 2007, when the
villager Nikola Radosavljević took a hunting rifle
and shot dead five men and four women in the Serbian
village of Jabukovac, near the border with Romania
and Bulgaria. Two other people were seriously
injured.
Police used helicopters to find
Nikola Radosavljević, who was traced to a nearby
cemetery. He was injured but his condition was not
life threatening.
July
27th 2007
5.00 PM - Nikola was eating
with his wife Jelena. After an argument he
punched her in the face and Jelena fell down.
Nikola jumped into a well.
5.30 PM - Dragoslav Badžikić
got him out of the well.
A few minutes later, Nikola
got his hunting rifle and walked out into the
street.
House number 89 - he shot
dead Veljko Đorđević (58), Marina Kutkuregović
(70) his mother in law, and Dragan Đorđević
(22).
In the next house he shot
dead Branislav Borongić (57) and Draginja
Borongić (55).
On the street Nikola met some
old women. He put a hunting rifle on the chest
of one woman and asked her in Romanian did she
make magic. She denied this and he let her live.
Next Nikola shot his cousin
Pera Vujić and wounded him.
House number 83 - he shot
dead Srđan Badžikić (15) and wounded Siniša
Badžikić (36).
On the other side of the
street he shot dead Branislav Badejević (22) and
wounded Vanuca Badejević (70).
House number 71 - he shot
dead Jelica Banković (37).
House number 80 - he shot
dead the mother-in-law of his brother, Anika
Čogić (62).
On a family grave Nikola shot
himself in the chest but did not succeed in
killing himself.
July
28th 2007
1.30 AM - Radosavljević was
arrested and taken to Niš hospital
Jabukovac shooter confesses to nine murders
31
July 2007 - B92.net
NEGOTIN,
BELGRADE -- Nikola Radosavljević, the suspect in the
weekend mass murder near Negotin, has confessed his crime.
Radosavljević, who was
diagnosed over a year ago with acute paranoid psychosis in a
Belgrade clinic, said he went on a shooting rampage in Jabukovac
last Friday, killing nine passers-by, because of “the injustice
he suffered”.
Reports say he did not further
explain his claim.
Shortly after MUP’s special
and regular police located and detained him in a village
cemetery Friday night, Radosavljević, who suffered self-inflicted
injuries, communicated only with tending doctors, however, he
gave his statement yesterday to an investigating judge.
Radosavljević told the judge
he killed nine and wounded two other villagers.
A doctor at Belgrade’s Laza
Lazarević mental health clinic told B92 Radosavljević was
treated there last year, after an incident in a bus while he was
returning from Austria, where he was a guest worker.
“The early diagnosis was acute
paranoid psychosis. He was brought in by the police in an
agitated state and he was aggressive. We had no proof there was
physical aggression involved as well, while a colleague of mine
recorded he had manic ideas about black magic,” Doctor Dragiša
Ranđelović said.
A day later, he was released
after a request filed by his wife and brother, who promised he
would continue treatment in Austria.
While Ranđelović claims
Radosavljević was hardly a patient of the clinic since he only
spent one day there, Zlatko Nikolić of the Institute for
Criminal Research says the doctors still had an obligation to
notify the authorities.
“Mistakes were made if they [the
clinic] failed to find out if there were any weapons involved.
In that case, they had to report in to the MUP. However, this
would have happened with or without that rifle,” Nikolić
believes.
Jabukovac locals say they knew
Radosavljević underwent psychiatric treatment in Belgrade and
Vienna, that he physically assaulted his wife and had conflicts
with the police.
Beta reported earlier that the
decision to detain Radosavljević, currently recovering in a Niš
hospital, was made by Negotin Judge Dragica Singurilović Tuesday.
A court-appointed lawyer will
be taking on as Radosavljević’s defense attorney, the agency
learned.
Radosavljević is a suspect in
the bloodiest mass murder in Serbia’s peacetime history, when 9
passers-by were gunned down last Friday in the eastern Serbian
village of Jubukovac, near Negotin.
Serbia village gunman kills nine
Saturday, 28
July 2007 - BBC News
A gunman has killed nine people in a shooting
rampage in eastern Serbia.
The man, armed with a hunting rifle, shot
dead five men and four women, apparently at random. Two other
people were seriously injured.
The shooting happened in the village of
Jabukovac, near the border with Romania and Bulgaria.
Police used helicopters to find the suspect,
who was traced to a nearby cemetery. TV images showed him being
taken away covered in blood.
The suspect was injured but his condition was
not life threatening, Radio B92 quoted police chief Rodoljub
Milovic as saying.
Local media reported that the shootings took
place shortly after the man had an argument with his wife. But
police have so far not commented on any possible motive.
The man, said to be in his late 30s, had
apparently recently returned to his home village after a period
of residence in Austria.
Interior Minister Dragan Jocic described the
incident as a huge tragedy and said there could be no rational
explanation.
Burial held for villagers killed in Serbia
shooting rampage
Sunday, July
29, 2007 - Associated Press
BELGRADE, Serbia-The victims of a shooting
rampage in an eastern Serbian village were buried Sunday, as
authorities declared a day of mourning in the area.
Hundreds of people, including government
officials, attended the funeral in the village of Jabukovac,
near the border with Bulgaria.
The nine victims, aged 15-60, were killed
late Friday when a gunman went on a shooting spree, firing an
automatic rifle randomly at passers-by in Jabukovac village.
Two other people were being treated in a
hospital for serious injuries, but were in stable condition.
Serbian police have arrested a suspect,
identified as 38-year-old Nikola Radosavljevic, who recently had
returned to the village from Austria, where he worked.
Police said they caught Radosavljevic by his
parents' grave early Saturday, hours after the shooting. State
television showed a man being pushed into a police van, his
clothes apparently soaked in blood.
Radosavljevic was later taken to a hospital,
police said.
Local media reported that Jabukovac's streets
had been virtually deserted since the shooting, as villagers
mourned the dead and prepared for the funeral.
The burial service included an Orthodox
Christian ceremony in the local church after which the victims
were laid to rest.
Authorities declared a day of mourning in
eastern Serbia.
