Jokela school shooting
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Key facts
- Date
- 7 November 2007 ; 18 years ago ( 2007-11-07 ) , 11:42 – 12:04 ( UTC+2 )
- Target
- Students and staff at Jokela High School
- Attack type
- School shooting , mass shooting , mass murder , murder–suicide , attempted arson
- Weapons
- .22LR SIG Sauer Mosquito semi-automatic pistol Puukko (unused) Two-stroke engine fuel
- Deaths
- 9 (including the perpetrator)
- Injured
- 13 (1 by gunfire)
- Perpetrator
- Pekka-Eric Auvinen
- Motive
- Misanthropy Retaliation for bullying Social Darwinism
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- school shooting
- Country
- Finland
- Located in
- Tuusula
- Location
- Tuusula
- Image
- Finland Jokela HighSchool-yard.JPG
- Number of deaths
- 9
- Number of injured
- 12
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- native label
- Jokelan koulusurmat
- point in time
- 2007-11-07
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Encyclopedic overview
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. Auvinen died later that evening in a hospital in Helsinki.
This was the second school shooting in the history of Finland, the first being the Raumanmeri school shooting in 1989, when a 14-year-old fatally shot two fellow students. Less than one year after the Jokela school massacre, the Kauhajoki school shooting occurred, which is thought to have been heavily inspired by Auvinen.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Jokela school shooting” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.