9 Dead in Czech Restaurant Shooting

A man noted as being mentally unstable shot eight patrons who were enjoying lunch at Droujba, a restaurant located in Uherského Brodu.  The gunman has also died.  It has been reported that there were about twenty customers inside when the unnamed assailant shot twenty-five rounds into the restaurant.

This incident is not being labelled as a terrorist act.  Those who knew the gunman described him as an elderly man with possible mental issues.  The shooting was premeditated, as tips were called into Prima TV earlier in the day.   Czech citizens have been on alert the past few weeks, especially after the national bomb threat that was called in last week.  Since the  incidents in Paris and Copenhagen, law enforcement throughout Europe has heightened security and awareness.  Uherského Brodu, located in the Zlin region of Czech Republic, is a generally quiet town, known for tourism and being nestled within the White Carpathian Mountains.