University distributing money collected to help mass shooting victims’ families

A special fund set up to help relatives of the victims of a mass shooting at a Prague university in December is already distributing some money to applicants for treatment or psychosocial support, iRozhlas.cz reported on Wednesday. The Charles University Endowment Fund has allocated CZK 13.5 million for that purpose out of a total of over CZK 52 million raised in a public collection, the news site said. A spokesperson said the university had a clear plan of how the entire amount will be distributed following the current “acute phase”, roughly from mid-February.

Fourteen people died and many were injured when a student at the Faculty of Arts went on a shooting spree on December 21.