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A 32-year-old Scottish DJ has been identified as one of the six people killed in a drive-by shooting in Krakow last week.
James Campbell, of Prestwick, was named on Wednesday among the victims of the November 7 shooting, in which a gunman opened fire on random people in the Polish city’s main market square.
Another British man was injured by the shooter, and local officials previously said three of the women and one man who were killed were Polish.
Police Scotland said they were supporting Mr Campbell’s family after his “tragic death”, and Prestwick’s local SNP branch paid tribute.
“Our heartfelt condolences to the family and friends of local Prestwick man James Thomas Campbell, only 32-years-old, tragically announced by local press today as one of the victims killed in the Krakow shooting,” it said on social media. “Our thoughts are with his loved ones.”
Detective Chief Inspector David McAlinden, senior investigating officer from Police Scotland’s Counter Terrorism Policing unit, said in a statement shared with that family liaison officers were providing specialist support to the family.
“While formal identification is yet to take place, our family liaison officers are providing specialist support to his family in Scotland,” he said.
“Working in conjunction with COPFS, Police Scotland is supporting the UK Counter Terrorism Policing network and the Polish authorities. The immediate shared priority is to ensure that identification is properly established for the family, so that repatriation can take place as quickly as possible.
“The family has asked for their privacy to be respected. Our thoughts are with them and everyone impacted by this incident.”
Local prosecutors said on Sunday that the attack was being treated as a terror incident. The suspect's motives have been the subject of a bitter political dispute since Interior Minister Marcin Kierwinski said on Saturday, just hours after the incident, that he had been influenced by far-right ideology.
The suspect, identified by prosecutors as 24-year-old factory worker Michal Oksinski, died in hospital on Monday after being shot and arrested by police minutes after they said he opened fire from a car in Krakow's historic main square, a popular tourist destination.
Prime Minister Donald Tusk said that the bodies of two women and one man had been found at the shooter's home in Ostrowiec Swietokrzyski, just under 200 kilometres north of Krakow.
"There are strong indications that they are members of his immediate family," Tusk told a crisis meeting.
The mass shooting of unprecedented scale adds to the sense of unease built by a string of school stabbings in October which authorities said was influenced by violent and extremist content online.