The Jabukovac killings occurred July 27, 2007, when the villager Nikola Radosavljević took a hunting rifle and shot dead five men and four women in the Serbia

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n village of Jabukovac

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, near the border with Romania

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 and Bulgaria

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. Three other people were injured, two of them seriously.

Police used helicopters to find Nikola Radosavljević, who was traced to a nearby cemetery. He was injured but his condition was not life threatening.

Timeline

At 5:00 PM, Nikola was eating with his wife Jelena. After an argument he punched her in the face and Jelena fell down. Nikola jumped into a well. By 5:30 PM, Dragoslav Badžikić got him out of the well. A few minutes later, Radosavljević got his hunting rifle and walked out into the street.

Radosavljević then shot and killed a number of people in the vicinity. On the street at one point, Radosavljević met an older woman. He asked her in Romanian

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 if she practiced magic

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. When she said no, he let her live.

At 1:30 AM the following day, Radosavljević was arrested and taken to Niš

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 hospital. He was subsequently taken to a prison mental hospital in Belgrade

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 where he was pronounced insane. He is currently serving a lifetime sentence in the same facility.

List of victims

• House number 87 - Veljko Đorđević (58), Marina Kutkuregović (70) his mother in law, and Dragan Đorđević (22).
• Branislav Borongić (57) and Draginja Borongić (55).
• Pera Vujić, Radosavljević's cousin, wounded.
• House number 83 - Srđan Badžikić (15) and wounded Siniša Badžikić (36).
• Branislav Badejević (22) and wounded Vanuca Badejević (70).
• House number 71 - he shot dead Jelica Banković (37).
• House number 80 - he shot dead the mother-in-law of his brother, Anika Čogić (62).

External links

• A gunman has killed nine people, BBC
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  (July 28, 2007)
• Shooting rampage leaves nine dead, B92
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• Day of mourning for Jabukovac victims, B92
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• Jabukovac, godinu dana posle, naslovi.net (June 7, 2008)