Leskovac shootings

On July 26, 2002, at 11:55 p.m. in Leskovac, Dragan Čedić shot dead a man and wounded another with an automatic rifle at the Sedam billiard club. Five minutes later he went to his wife's house. He first shot his wife and her sister, then shot another of her sisters and her sister's husband. He shot a neighbor near the house and wounded a neighbor. Then he went to the house where his wife's aunt and mother lived. There he shot his wife's aunt and wounded her aunt's husband and son. The shootings ended at 12:20 a.m. on July 27, 2002. He fled after the shooting. Police searched for him for days, but could not find him. That night they found his car. People reported seeing him in various places, but none of these reports were actually true. His body was found in a forest near Leskovac on September 1, 2002. He shot himself with a pistol at about 11 a.m. on July 27. A pistol and a grenade were found near him.[1][2][3][4]

Dragan Čedić.

Thirty-two-year-old Dragan Čedić (Serbian Cyrillic: Драган Чедић) lived in Leskovac. He graduated from the Higher Veterinary School. He rented a kiosk at a market selling contraband. He was smuggling from Bulgaria. Colleagues described him as a calm man. He had seizures, which became stronger over the years and were manifested by strong shocks of the head, and then loud screams. According to his wife's relatives, Dragan refused to see a doctor in Leskovac, but there is evidence that he consulted doctors in Belgrade. It is believed that for these reasons he was returned from the Kosovo War in 1999 only about twenty days later. The police received complaints against him. Dragan married a woman named Bilyan nine years before the shooting. Bilyana's parents were against their wedding. They are survived by an eight-year-old daughter named Maria. Shortly after the wedding, Dragan became very jealous and dominant. He kept her in the room for days. She could not look out the window, did not dare to go to the phone. He forbade her to contact everyone. When she resisted, he beat her. During one of his trips to Bulgaria in October 2001, Bilyana and her daughter ran away from him. She took personal belongings, several tens of thousands of marks and rented a house with this money. In May 2002, Bilyana returned home to her parents. After that, she filed for divorce. Dragan was allowed to visit and take his daughter with him. Bilyana accused him of physical violence. Police visited Bilyana's parents' home several times and Dragan threatened to kill his father-in-law. For 8 years, Bilyana's mother complained about Dragan to the police and various social services. He said he would kill his wife if she did not return to him. There was also information that Dragan was carrying a list of people he was going to kill and showing it to his friends.[1][2][3][4][5]