Krakow gunman dies without charges, motive unknown
Poland's prosecutors never got to charge him and are now combing four phones for signs of an accomplice. They are also investigating the deaths of his parents and sister.
Michał Oksiński, 24, died Monday in a Krakow hospital before prosecutors could charge him. Poland's National Prosecutor's Office names him as the gunman who opened fire Saturday in the city's Main Market Square, the Rynek Główny. There will be no trial.
Prosecutors treat the shooting as terrorism, but say his motive "has not been established." They are looking into whether anyone urged him on or helped him, though they have named no one. Investigators are trying to pull data from four phones seized from him.
Six people died in the square: four women and two men, among them four Poles, a Briton and an Austrian. Fifteen were wounded, six of them foreigners. Two police officers were shot when officers stopped him.
Małopolska police have laid out the attack minute by minute. Around 15:00, the driver of a black Subaru Impreza rolled into the square and fired a long gun at pedestrians. A patrol car gave chase at 15:01. Twenty-eight seconds later he shot at a streetcar. At 15:03 he crashed at the corner of Dietla and Stradomska streets, where he and officers exchanged fire. A bomb-squad sweep found no explosives in the car.
The same investigation covers the deaths of Oksiński's parents and his 21-year-old sister, who were found dead in the family's apartment in Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski, each with two gunshot wounds to the head.
Interior Minister Marcin Kierwiński had pointed to signs of far-right influence. The prosecutors' statement mentions no ideology.
He got his gun permit in January and bought his first weapon in March. Prosecutors list two AR-15 rifles, two pistols and several hundred rounds, plus seven more weapons found in an apartment.
