Jokela school shooting
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 ankle(s) in the subsequent chaos that ensued. Auvinen died later that evening in a Helsinki hospital.
| Jokela school shooting | |
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Jokela High School's yard | |
| Location | Jokela, Tuusula, Finland |
| Coordinates | 60°32′56″N 024°57′49″E |
| Date | 7 November 2007 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 | .22 calibre SIG Sauer Mosquito semi-automatic pistol |
| Deaths | 9 (including the perpetrator) |
| Injured | 13 (1 by gunfire) |
| Perpetrator | Pekka-Eric Auvinen |
| Motive | School Bullying, Misanthropy, Social Darwinism |
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. Less than one year after the Jokela school massacre, the Kauhajoki school shooting occurred, which is thought to have been heavily inspired by Auvinen.