Nikola RADOSAVLJEVIC
AKA "The Jabukovac Killer"
Classification: Spree killer
Characteristics: Argument
Number of victims: 9
Date of murder: July 27, 2007
Date of arrest: Next day
Date of birth: 1968
Victims profile: Veljko Đorđević (58), Marina Kutkuregović (70), and Dragan Đorđević (22) / Branislav Borongić (57) and Draginja Borongić (55) / Srđan Badžikić (15) / Branislav Badejević (22) / Jelica Banković (37) / Anika Čogić (62)
Method of murder: Shooting (hunting rifle)
Location: Jabukovac, Serbia
Status: Taken to a prison mental hospital in Belgrade where he was pronounced insane. He is currently serving a lifetime sentence in the same facility
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 Serbian village of Jabukovac, near the border with Romania and Bulgaria. 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 if she practiced magic. When she said no, he let her live.
At 1:30 AM the following day, Radosavljević was arrested and taken to Niš hospital. He was subsequently taken to a prison mental hospital in Belgrade 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).
Wikipedia.org
The Jabukovac killings occurred July 27th 2007, when the villager Nikola Radosavljević took a hunting rifle and shot dead five men and four women in the Serbian village of Jabukovac, near the border with Romania and Bulgaria. Two other people were seriously injured.
Police used helicopters to find Nikola Radosavljević, who was traced to a nearby cemetery. He was injured but his condition was not life threatening.
July 27th 2007
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.
5.30 PM - Dragoslav Badžikić got him out of the well.
A few minutes later, Nikola got his hunting rifle and walked out into the street.
House number 89 - he shot dead Veljko Đorđević (58), Marina Kutkuregović (70) his mother in law, and Dragan Đorđević (22).
In the next house he shot dead Branislav Borongić (57) and Draginja Borongić (55).
On the street Nikola met some old women. He put a hunting rifle on the chest of one woman and asked her in Romanian did she make magic. She denied this and he let her live.
Next Nikola shot his cousin Pera Vujić and wounded him.
House number 83 - he shot dead Srđan Badžikić (15) and wounded Siniša Badžikić (36).
On the other side of the street he shot dead 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).
On a family grave Nikola shot himself in the chest but did not succeed in killing himself.
July 28th 2007
1.30 AM - Radosavljević was arrested and taken to Niš hospital
Jabukovac shooter confesses to nine murders
31 July 2007 - B92.net
NEGOTIN, BELGRADE -- Nikola Radosavljević, the suspect in the weekend mass murder near Negotin, has confessed his crime.
Radosavljević, who was diagnosed over a year ago with acute paranoid psychosis in a Belgrade clinic, said he went on a shooting rampage in Jabukovac last Friday, killing nine passers-by, because of “the injustice he suffered”.
Reports say he did not further explain his claim.
Shortly after MUP’s special and regular police located and detained him in a village cemetery Friday night, Radosavljević, who suffered self-inflicted injuries, communicated only with tending doctors, however, he gave his statement yesterday to an investigating judge.
Radosavljević told the judge he killed nine and wounded two other villagers.
A doctor at Belgrade’s Laza Lazarević mental health clinic told B92 Radosavljević was treated there last year, after an incident in a bus while he was returning from Austria, where he was a guest worker.
“The early diagnosis was acute paranoid psychosis. He was brought in by the police in an agitated state and he was aggressive. We had no proof there was physical aggression involved as well, while a colleague of mine recorded he had manic ideas about black magic,” Doctor Dragiša Ranđelović said.
A day later, he was released after a request filed by his wife and brother, who promised he would continue treatment in Austria.
While Ranđelović claims Radosavljević was hardly a patient of the clinic since he only spent one day there, Zlatko Nikolić of the Institute for Criminal Research says the doctors still had an obligation to notify the authorities.
“Mistakes were made if they [the clinic] failed to find out if there were any weapons involved. In that case, they had to report in to the MUP. However, this would have happened with or without that rifle,” Nikolić believes.
Jabukovac locals say they knew Radosavljević underwent psychiatric treatment in Belgrade and Vienna, that he physically assaulted his wife and had conflicts with the police.
Beta reported earlier that the decision to detain Radosavljević, currently recovering in a Niš hospital, was made by Negotin Judge Dragica Singurilović Tuesday.
A court-appointed lawyer will be taking on as Radosavljević’s defense attorney, the agency learned.
Radosavljević is a suspect in the bloodiest mass murder in Serbia’s peacetime history, when 9 passers-by were gunned down last Friday in the eastern Serbian village of Jubukovac, near Negotin.
Serbia village gunman kills nine
Saturday, 28 July 2007 - BBC News
A gunman has killed nine people in a shooting rampage in eastern Serbia.
The man, armed with a hunting rifle, shot dead five men and four women, apparently at random. Two other people were seriously injured.
The shooting happened in the village of Jabukovac, near the border with Romania and Bulgaria.
Police used helicopters to find the suspect, who was traced to a nearby cemetery. TV images showed him being taken away covered in blood.
The suspect was injured but his condition was not life threatening, Radio B92 quoted police chief Rodoljub Milovic as saying.
Local media reported that the shootings took place shortly after the man had an argument with his wife. But police have so far not commented on any possible motive.
The man, said to be in his late 30s, had apparently recently returned to his home village after a period of residence in Austria.
Interior Minister Dragan Jocic described the incident as a huge tragedy and said there could be no rational explanation.
Burial held for villagers killed in Serbia shooting rampage
Sunday, July 29, 2007 - Associated Press
BELGRADE, Serbia-The victims of a shooting rampage in an eastern Serbian village were buried Sunday, as authorities declared a day of mourning in the area.
Hundreds of people, including government officials, attended the funeral in the village of Jabukovac, near the border with Bulgaria.
The nine victims, aged 15-60, were killed late Friday when a gunman went on a shooting spree, firing an automatic rifle randomly at passers-by in Jabukovac village.
Two other people were being treated in a hospital for serious injuries, but were in stable condition.
Serbian police have arrested a suspect, identified as 38-year-old Nikola Radosavljevic, who recently had returned to the village from Austria, where he worked.
Police said they caught Radosavljevic by his parents' grave early Saturday, hours after the shooting. State television showed a man being pushed into a police van, his clothes apparently soaked in blood.
Radosavljevic was later taken to a hospital, police said.
Local media reported that Jabukovac's streets had been virtually deserted since the shooting, as villagers mourned the dead and prepared for the funeral.
The burial service included an Orthodox Christian ceremony in the local church after which the victims were laid to rest.
Authorities declared a day of mourning in eastern Serbia.
