Jokela school shooting
On November 7th, 2007, 18 year old Pekka Eric Auvinen would kill 8 people and injure an additional 13 before shooting himself in the head and dying later in the hospital. The shooting was the deadliest school shooting Finland until the Kauhajoki school shooting that took place only a year later.
| Jokela school shooting | |
|---|---|
 Jokela High School's yard | |
| Location | Jokela, Tuusula, Finland |
| Coordinates | 60°32′56″N 024°57′49″E / 60.54889°N 24.96361°E |
| Date | 7 November 2007 11:42 – 12:04[1] (UTC+2) |
| Target | Students and staff at Jokela High School |
Attack type | School shooting, mass shooting, mass murder, murder–suicide, attempted arson |
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| Deaths | 9 (including the perpetrator)[2][3] |
Injured | 13 (1 by gunfire)[4] |
| Perpetrator | Pekka-Eric Auvinen |
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- ↑ "Nine Dead in School Shooting". Yle. 2007-11-08. Retrieved 2007-11-09.
- ↑ "Teen gunman dead from critical injuries who opened fire on Finnish classmates". CNN. 2007-11-07. Archived from the original on 9 November 2007. Retrieved 2007-11-07.
- ↑ "Fatal shooting at Finnish school". BBC News. 2007-11-07. Retrieved 2007-11-07.
- ↑ Cite error: The named reference
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