Pekka-Eric Auvinen

2007 school shooting in Tuusula, Finland

Pekka-Eric Auvinen
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 during the ensuing chaos. Auvinen died later that evening in a Helsinki hospital. This was the second school shooting in the history of Finland. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jokela_school_shooting

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