Global Courant 2023-05-04 14:29:59
13-year-old Kosta Kecmanovic, who killed eight peers and a guard at the “Vladislav Ribnikar” elementary school in Belgrade the morning before, has been described as one of the cruelest killers in history.
According to foreign media, among all mass murderers in the world under the age of 14, which in Serbia is the legal limit below which a child cannot be criminally responsible for a crime regardless of the number of victims, no one has killed as many victims as the 13-year-old.
Until now, only three names were on the list of children of mass murderers under the age of 14, who left behind at least four victims.
In 2019, Kyle Alwood killed five members of his family when he set fire to a house in Illinois, USA. At that time he was only 9 years old.
In 1998, in the company of accomplice Mitchell Johnson, 13, Andrew Golden, 11, killed four students and a teacher at an Arkansas high school and wounded 10 others.
Brazilian Marcelo Eduardo Bovo, 13 years old, killed four people in São Paulo in 2013, after which he committed suicide.
This list might also include Germany’s 13-year-old Ida Schell, who killed six babies in Munich in 1907. However, she killed over a long period of time, so she falls more into the category of serial killers than murderers. in mass.
The last mass crime of this magnitude, which was committed by a minor almost the same age as KK, happened 65 years ago, in the United States of America.
In 1968, Caryl Ann Fugate, a year older than KK at the time of the crime, killed 11 people with a 19-year-old Charles Starkweather. After her arrest, she became the youngest woman in US history to be tried and convicted of the most serious form of murder. She was sentenced to life imprisonment but was released on parole in 1976.
The worst case of mass murder by a minor in human history
If we consider other mass murderers between the ages of 14 and 18, it is the case of 17-year-old Tim Krechmer in 2009, when the shooting at a high school in Germany ended with 16 victims. The attacker Kretschmer eventually killed himself.
Another case, but in the category of serial killers was Juan Fernando Hermosa Suarez from Ecuador, known as Niño del Terror. At the age of 15, Suarez founded a gang that in just four months killed 8 taxi drivers, 11 gay people, a truck driver, his acquaintance and two other victims. A total of 22 people.
Jeffrey James Wise 16 years old was a student at Red Lake High School in Minnesota, USA. In 2005, he killed his grandfather and his grandfather’s friend, before going on to high school and killing seven more people, for a total of nine. He killed himself after the crime.
Eric Borrell, 16, was a high school student who killed his family in 1999 and then 12 other people in a village in France. He left behind a total of 15 victims. He also killed himself after the crime.
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