Kristijan Aleksić Arrested for Murder of Pizza Delivery Driver Luka Milovac A 19-year-old delivering pizza for pocket money ends up dead, a convicted killer is back in handcuffs, and a small Croatian town is asking why the system let him anywhere near a gun again.

On Saturday, May 16, high school senior and weekend delivery driver Luka Milovac climbed the stairs of a Drniš home to drop off an order. Waiting behind the door, police say, was 50-year-old Kristijan Aleksić, a man with a prior murder conviction. Moments after Luka stepped onto the terrace, Aleksić allegedly opened fire, shooting him at point-blank range as his friend watched in horror.

What followed was a chaotic 30-hour manhunt. Aleksić fled into the surrounding area, allegedly sprinkling pepper to throw off tracking dogs while carrying both a firearm and a knife. A shopkeeper later recalled how, the night before the killing, he had come in “5 to 8 minutes before closing, asked if the cameras were working… and bought pâtés, pepper, canned meat, fish, and cola,” stocking up for an apparent escape. Police finally caught him on the edge of town with the help of drones, just a few hundred meters from the murder scene.

As investigators pieced together the crime, the country revisited Aleksić’s bloody past. In 1994, he stabbed 22-year-old Marijana Sučević 17 times and smashed her skull with an iron bar, a killing that went unsolved for seven years before his confession. Tabloids now brand him “the monster from Drniš,” stressing that he “killed a girl (22) with 17 stab wounds… and then brutally killed the boy Luka.”

Drniš is in mourning—and in revolt. The town has declared a day of mourning; Luka will be buried in the suit he bought for his prom. Teachers, coaches, and neighbors describe him as a “phenomenal child, endlessly dear and good,” and rage at institutions that left a twice-violent offender free despite being found with a weapon in 2023. Pro-government outlets laud the high-tech dragnet and swift arrest, but their own reporting underscores the angrier verdict forming in Luka’s hometown: the state caught Aleksić twice—once after Marijana, once with a gun—and still failed to keep him from killing again.