Perpetrator
Gavrilo Princip
- Born
- 25 July 1894
- Died
- 28 April 1918, aged about 24
- Record
- Wikidata Q80492 · Wikipedia
Perpetrator in The Sarajevo Assassination
Bosnian Serb student who fired the fatal shots; nineteen at the time, so sentenced to twenty years rather than death. Died of tuberculosis in the fortress prison at Theresienstadt.
1914–1915 · Latin Bridge, Sarajevo · Convicted
A wrong turn, a stalled engine and a nineteen-year-old with a pistol: how Franz Ferdinand and Sophie were killed in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914. Read the case.
Dated events
Princip, Čabrinović and Grabež leave Belgrade with pistols and bombs supplied by Major Tankosić.
Shortly before 11 a.m., Princip shoots Franz Ferdinand and Sophie near the Latin Bridge; both die within the hour.
Verdicts: Princip, Čabrinović and Grabež receive twenty years; five men are sentenced to death.
Princip dies of tuberculosis in the prison at Theresienstadt.