Jokela school shooting

When

7 Nov 2007

Kind

Massacre

Deaths

9

Coordinates

60.55° N, 24.96° E

Description

2007 School shooting in Tuusula, Finland

2007 school shooting in Tuusula, Finland

On 7 November 2007, a mass shooting occurred 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 before shooting himself in the head; twelve others were also injured by flying glass or by spraining their ankles during the ensuing chaos.

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