Prosecutor: Father of Belgrade school shooter indicted

BELGRADE - The chief public prosecutor of the Higher Public Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade Nenad Stefanovic announced on Tuesday the prosecutor's office had raised an indictment against the father of a teenage boy who killed ten people - including nine children - and wounded six others - including five children - in a May 3 shooting spree in a primary school in downtown Belgrade.

At a press conference, Stefanovic said Vladimir Kecmanovic had been charged with the criminal offence of grave criminal act against general safety.

The 267-page indictment says Kecmanovic's inappropriate storage of firearms enabled his son to obtain the weapon he committed the massacre with.

Stefanovic also said Kecmanovic was suspected of having trained the 13-year-old boy to handle and shoot from air guns and firearms over a period of one year before the tragedy at the Vladislav Ribnikar Primary School.

Stefanovic said the boy's mother had been charged with unauthorised possession of ammunition.