Gavrillo Princip was 21
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Gavrilo Princip and the black hand gang killed the archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie
Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated by a member of the Serbian Black Hand Gang called Gavrilo Princip.
They were a terrorist group, who killed Franz Ferdinand in the 1st World war. Ferdinand was the Archduke of Austria. The Black Hand was founded on May 9th 1911 in the Kingdom of Serbia. By 1914, there were several hundred members, perhaps as many as 2500.
Gavrilo Princip, 19 at the time, a member of Young Bosnia and one of a group of assassins organized by the Black Hand.
well there was a group called the black hand and they were ethnic Serb's and they wanted freedom freedom from Bosnia which archduke Ferdinand ruled they hated him so much they wanted him dead.thegroup black hand sent four men into different places in a serbian city called sarajevo where the archduke was.the first man who tried to kill him got caught the second man went right up to archduke ferdinand and his wife and shot them both.