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 VeliÃÂ. A sniper neutralized the gunman.
The attacker was identified as Mevlid Jaà ¡arevià(b. 1988), a Bosniak holding Serbian citizenship born in Novi Pazar in southwestern Serbia, and living in well-known Wahhabist stronghold Gornja MaoÃÂa in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Jaà ¡areviàlived in Vienna for a period before moving to Gornja MaoÃÂa.
On 24 April 2012, Jaà ¡areviàwas indicted by a federal grand jury in the District of Columbia on charges of attempted murder and other violations in connection with the attack. A Bosnian court sentenced him on 6 December 2012 to 18 years in prison. It was then lowered to 15 years in 2013.
On 23 November 2018, Bosnian police arrested a man believed to have assisted Jaà ¡areviàin the attack. Bosnian state prosecutors stated that the man was also suspected of having fought for the Islamic State and Al-Nusra Front.