Radić was shot and killed in parliament by the Serbian radical politician Puniša Račić.

[1] This assassination further alienated the Croats and the Serbs and initiated the breakdown of the parliamentary system, culminating in the 6 January Dictatorship of 1929.

[2] In the Assembly, Puniša Račić, a member of the People's Radical Party, got up and made a provocative speech which produced a stormy reaction from the opposition but Radić himself stayed completely silent.

Finally, Ivan Pernar shouted in response, "thou plundered beys" (referring to accusations of corruption related to him).

Minister Milorad Vujičić, sitting at the bench behind Račić, grabbed his hand in order to stop him.

At that point Pavle Radić jumped towards Račić, who didn't get confused, but remarked: "Ha!