Terrorist Who Killed 2 at Gay Bar Inspired by Buffalo Shooter
Slovakian police officials have recategorized an attack on the LGBTQ+ community as terrorism, while the gunman’s haunting words indicate an obsession with mass shooters.Last Wednesday, a gunman who attacked the LGBTQ+ community in Bratislava described the Buffalo supermarket shooter as his inspiration for committing terrorist acts.Shortly after 7 p.m., a shooter opened fire outside the Teplaren bar in Bratislava's city center, killing two people and wounding a third.
A Twitter account believed to be the shooter, 19-year-old Juraj Krajcik, tweeted the hashtags “#bratislava #hatecrime #gaybar” and “feeling no regrets, isn’t that funny?” Police found his body the next day.
He'd died by suicide.The Prime Minister of Slovakia, Eduard Heger, condemned the killing of the two young people by the radicalized teen.“No form of white supremacy, racism and #extremism against communities, incl. #LGBTI, can be tolerated.
We will fight disinfo channels spreading hate &protect minorities,” he wrote. Investigators in Slovakia called the shooting a terrorist attack Monday, motivated by hatred of the LGBTQ+ community.Homeland Security Today reports that Krajcik tweeted a selfie standing across from Teplaren, with the bar in frame in mid-August, followed by an ominous tweet in September writing that “in all likelyhood (sic) I will die in the course of the operation.”Then on October 11 and 12, he tweeted, “I have made my decision,” and “It will be done,” the outlet reports.Somebody uploaded an online screed of 65 pages to various file-sharing sites shortly before the attack.
