What the records say
- When
- 26 May 2012
- Kind
- Shooting
- Killed
- 2
- Coordinates
- 60.63° N, 24.86° E
- Description
- shooting incident in Hyvinkää, Finland on 26 May 2012
- Injured
- 7
Hyvinkää shooting
2012 mass shooting in Finland
The Hyvinkää shooting was a mass shooting that occurred on 26 May 2012, in the early hours of the morning in the centre of Hyvinkää, Finland, when an 18-year-old man, opened fire onto crowds outside restaurants of Uudenmaankatu street from atop a nearby building using two rifles. Two people were killed and seven others were wounded. The shooter fled the scene and was arrested the same day.
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