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Gavrilo Princip (in Serbian Cyrillic: Гаврило Принцип)was born in 1894 and died in prison in 1918 from TB.He was the son of Petar and Marija Nana Mičić who had in total nine children. The family were very poor and so was Gavrilo's health. He suffered from TB as a boy and this is supposedly one of the causes which led him to shoot the Archduke.
The general consensus among historians is that he was a member of the Young Bosnia (Млада Босна)and/or a member of the terrorist group the Black Hand (Црна рука)which consisted of Serbs, Croats and Bosnian Muslims, all who wanted one thing; independence from Austria-Hungary.
After he fired the fatal shots, Princip took a cyanide pill in order to kill himself (as did the man who threw the dynamite) but the pill failed and both Princip and the other man, Nedeljko Čabrinović, were only violently sick but not dead. During his arrest Prinicp tried to shoot himself but the gun was seized and his was unable to kill himself.
Owing to the fact that he was only 19, Princip escaped the death sentence but was imprisoned for twenty years (the maximum in those days) where he suffered harsh conditions made worse by the outbreak of World War 1.
