Mass shooter, 21, called himself 'fierce guy' before killing 8 including sister
The 21-year-old man who shot dead eight people has been named as the son of a member of the Serbian military and the friend of a reality star.
At least eight people died and 14 are wounded after Uros Blažić opened fire, from a moving car, with an automatic rifle on passers-by in a town south of Belgrade, Serbia.
The drive-by attack late on Thursday came after eight children and a security guard were killed in another mass shooting at a school on Wednesday in the country.
Mr Blažić was on the run for hours after killing a police officer and his sister before he was arrested on Friday morning, state broadcaster RTS TV reported.
Serbian Interior Minister Bratislav Gasic called the shooting “a terrorist act”.
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Suspect Uros Blazic, 21, poses in undated photo (Newsflash)Mr Blažić is the best friend of reality star Nikola Đorđević who has nearly 27k followers on Instagram.
They published joint photos on Instagram, and just six days ago they bragged about their wild ride in a sports car.
In another photo on Blažić's Instagram account, he said he was a "fierce guy".
His account was shut down shortly after the massacre.
A witness said: "He is abnormal, as is his family. Once he was stopped by the police, he got out of the car and attacked the policeman. I know he was arrested once for ammunition.
"He loved rafts, his idol was Kristijan Golubović [Serbian gangster]. He was driving a motorcycle, he entered the village and drove 200 kilometres per hour. That's the only way we saw him."
A forensic investigator works at one of the crime scenes (AFP via Getty Images)Under current law, a registered gun owner in Serbia must be over 18, healthy, and have no criminal record. Weapons must be kept locked and separately from ammunition.
Wednesday's shooting at the Vladislav Ribnikar school left seven people hospitalised - six children and a teacher.
One girl who was shot in the head remains in life-threatening condition and a boy is in serious condition with spinal injuries, doctors said Thursday.
Police block a road in the village of Dubona near the town of Mladenovac (AFP via Getty Images)Two shootings in two days is very rare for the Balkan country. The last mass shooting before this week was in 2013 when a war veteran killed 13 people in a central Serbian village.
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Al Jazeera’s Bojana Stojanovic said: "We are all in a state of shock, people have still not captured their emotions after the school tragedy.
“Everyone is a bit more silent than they were. The loudest thing we can hear is shock. These things never happened in Serbia before, not in this measure."
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