| 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 |
| Weapons | .22 calibre SIG Sauer Mosquito semi-automatic pistol |
| Deaths | 9 (including the perpetrator)[2][3] |
| Injured | 13 (1 by gunfire)[4] |
| Perpetrator | Pekka-Eric Auvinen |
| Motive | Retaliation for school bullying, misanthropy, social Darwinism |
The Jokela school shooting, also known as the Jokela High School massacre, occurred on 7 November 2007, at Jokela High School in the town of Jokela, Tuusula, Finland. The gunman, 18-year-old Pekka-Eric Auvinen, entered the school that morning armed with a semi-automatic pistol. He killed eight people and wounded one person in the toe before shooting himself in the head; twelve others were also injured by flying glass or by spraining their ankles in the subsequent chaos that ensued.[4] Auvinen died later that evening in a Helsinki hospital.
This was the second school shooting in the history of Finland. The previous incident occurred in 1989 at the Raumanmeri school in Rauma, when a 14-year-old fatally shot two fellow students.[5] Less than one year after the Jokela school massacre, the Kauhajoki school shooting occurred, which is thought to have been heavily inspired by Auvinen.
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- ^ "Teen gunman dead from critical injuries who opened fire on Finnish classmates". CNN. 7 November 2007. Archived from the original on 9 November 2007. Retrieved 7 November 2007.
- ^ "Fatal shooting at Finnish school". BBC News. 7 November 2007. Retrieved 7 November 2007.
- ^ a b Petäjäniemi, Tuulikki (Chairman); Valonen, Kai (LL.M. Secretary, Chief Accident Investigator) (26 February 2009). "Jokela School Shooting on 7 November 2007: Report of the Investigation Commission" (PDF). Helsinki: Ministry of Justice. Retrieved 19 May 2017.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ "School Shootings Rare in Finland". Yle. 7 November 2007. Retrieved 7 November 2007.