Background
Jović was born on 29 November 1969 in the village of Aržano, near Imotski, to Filip and Marija Jović.
Jović was born on 29 November 1969 in the village of Aržano, near Imotski, to Filip and Marija Jović.
He is widely considered the first Croatian fatality of the Croatian War of Independence. After completing his compulsory military service in a JNA Mechanised Infantry unit in Montenegro between 1987 and 1989, on 5 August 1990, Jović joined the Croatian Ministry of the Interior (MUP) Unit for Special Purposes in Zagreb. On 29 March 1991, the Plitvice Lakes management was expelled by rebel Krajina Serb police under the control of Milan Martić, supported by paramilitary volunteers from Serbia proper under the command of Vojislav Šešelj.
On Easter Sunday, 31 March 1991, Croatian police officers entered the national park to expel the Serb rebels.
Serb paramilitaries ambushed a bus carrying Croatian police into the national park on the road north of Korenica, sparking a day-long gun battle between the two sides. Jović was struck by burst fire at the post-office building, penetrating his bulletproof vest.
When a Yugoslav People"s Army helicopter landed to transfer him to hospital, Jović was already dead. He was buried with military honors at the cemetery in Aržano.