a gunman fired with a kalashnikov rifle on the united states embassy in sarajevo on 28 october 2011, resulting in one local policeman guarding the embassy being wounded in the arm by the gunman, while the shooter was wounded by a police sniper. the attacker shot 105 bullets, and severely wounded policeman mirsad velić. a ministry of interior agent neutralized the attacker with a sniper shot. the attacker was identified as mevlid jašarević (b. 1988), a serbian national born in novi pazar in southwestern serbia, living in well-known wahhabist stronghold gornja maoča in bosnia and herzegovina. jašarević lived in vienna for a period before moving to gornja maoča.