The perpetrator of Saturday’s armed attack in Krakow died in hospital, according to an announcement by the Polish police

The author of the shooting carried out on Saturday in the center of Kraków died at the hospital on Monday morning, the police of the Lesser Poland Voivodeship announced. The man, identified by the Polish press as Michal O., born in 2002, is suspected of killing six people in the Old Town area and three other members of his family.

The attacker, dressed in a military uniform, wearing a mask and helmet and armed with a semi-automatic rifle, allegedly opened fire from a black Subaru at passersby near a busy square. Among the victims of the attack in the city center were a British man and an Austrian woman. Another 15 people were injured, including citizens of the United Kingdom, Portugal, Russia, Germany, and Austria.

The police arrived within minutes and pursued the suspect. After hitting a parked vehicle, he got out of the car and exchanged fire with two officers, who were seriously injured. Both police officers were awakened from medically induced comas and remain hospitalized.

The Interior Ministry claims that the suspect was fascinated by far-right ideologies. Prosecutors have opened an investigation into an act of a terrorist nature, but the exact motives have not yet been established. President Karol Nawrocki decreed two days of national mourning.

Meanwhile, Poles have raised over 4.95 million zlotys for the injured police officers and their families, in a campaign supported by more than 91,000 people.