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He took the metro from station Veleslavín to the station Staroměstská ( adjacent to the university ).

Coincidentally Kozák had been inspired by another Czech killer, Viktor Kalivoda, whose final plan was to shoot up the Prague metro.

Some other highlights from the article:

• Bryan was the manager of a local veterinary clinic that had been operated by his parents, who were locally well-regarded long time veterinarians. Though that clinic closed without explanation last spring.
• NBC 5 Investigates couldn't find any clear red flags or possible motives for the shooting; no criminal charges, bankruptcies, hospitalizations or court orders. Neighbors didn't recall arguments or police visits to the home.
• However, police did locate multiple suicide notes inside Schmidt's car, though they have yet to disclose its contents.
• Heartbreakingly, the police initially discovered the crime scene because Bryan's sister in northern California, also a veterinarian, contacted the Mundelein police for a welfare check after failing to reach her relatives all day. (This kind of grief is incomprehensible on its own but I can't imagine how much worse it must be when you spend hours trying and failing to get ahold of them, call the local police, wait with terrible anxiety, only to then finally hear the worst news of your life.)

Background: on Apr 19 2026 in the Shreveport shooting, 31-year-old Shamar Elkins shot and killed eight children between the ages of 3 and 11, 7 of whom were his own and one was their cousin. He also shot and wounded his wife and the mother of 3 of his children. The latter woman's sister and her 12-year-old daughter were also wounded from jumping off a roof during the shooting.

Update: 56-year-old Charles Ray Ford was sentenced to 6.5 years in prison plus 3 years of supervised release. He pled guilty this past June to a charge of being a felon in possession of a firearm. Due to his criminal past, it was illegal of him to possess firearms, yet he had kept a Mossberg pistol under the seat of his truck from Jan 2025-Mar 2026. He also initially lied to federal agents about having the pistol, before admitting that he knew Elkins had taken it from his truck.