Re: Jokela High School Massacre - 11/7/2007

On Nov 7, 9:36 pm, ☆☆☆☆☆ Sü Keith Chakotay von Carpati
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HELSINKI, Finland (CNN) -- An 18-year-old authorities say shot eight
people inside his high school in southern Finland, before turning the
gun on himself, has died, police said.

An image from a video posted on YouTube by "Sturmgeist89."

more photos »  The shooting appeared to have been planned out in
graphic videos posted on Internet file-sharing site YouTube.

At a news conference this afternoon, police confirmed the dead
numbered two girls, five boys and the school's headmistress at Jokela
High in Tuusula, a quiet town around 50 kilometers (30 miles) north of
Helsinki.

Ten other people were taken to a hospital with minor injuries.

The shooter, whom police identified as Pekka Eric Auvinen, died at
Toolo Hospital, authorities said. Police said he took his own life.

It was the first school shooting in Finland since 1989, when a 14-year-
old student shot and killed two others in the coastal town of Rauma,
the Finnish news agency STT reported.

Police said Auvinen is from Tuusula and who acted alone. He had no
previous criminal record and had never threatened anyone from the
school before, they added.

Auvinen published a manifesto online demanding war on the "weak-minded
masses" and pledged to die for his cause.  Watch Auvinen fire weapons
in video from his Web page »

YouTube appeared to have removed 89 videos linked to his account, many
of them featuring Nazi imagery, shortly after the incident.

Finnish media reported someone posted a message two weeks ago on the
Web site, warning of a bloodbath at the school.

A video posted earlier Wednesday, by "Sturmgeist89," was titled
"Jokela High School Massacre - 11/7/2007." "Sturmgeist89" identified
himself as Auvinen, and said he chose the name "Sturmgeist" because it
means "storm spirit" in German.

The video showed a picture of the school, which then disintegrated to
reveal two images of Auvinen against a red background, pointing a gun
at the screen.

The clip is accompanied by the song "Stray Bullet" from rock band
KMFDM. Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, the students behind the 1999
Columbine High School massacre, also cited that group's lyrics.

Another short video clip, called "Just Testing My Gun," showed Auvinen
loading and cocking a handgun. He fired and hit several pieces of
fruit in a wooded area; the camera then showed a close-up of the
destroyed fruit, and then a full-screen shot of him again. He waved at
the camera and then walked out of view.

The site indicated that the youth appeared to be fascinated with
killing. As well as video footage of the Columbine school shootings,
it also included clips of the 1993 Waco siege in the United States,
the 1995 sarin gas attack in Tokyo, and bombs falling on Baghdad
during the 2003 invasion.

Many showed victims being wheeled away or people running for their
lives. Throughout all of this, the single word "DIE" constantly
flashed across the screen. Other video clips included Nazi-war-
criminal footage.

In the rambling text posted on the site, Auvinen said that he is "a
cynical existentialist, anti-human humanist, anti-social social-
Darwinist, realistic idealist and god-like atheist.

"I am prepared to fight and die for my cause," he wrote. "I, as a
natural selector, will eliminate all who I see unfit, disgraces of
human race and failures of natural selection."

The police said at this afternoon's press conference that they had
been fired at when they arrived at the school at 11.45 p.m. local time
(9.45 a.m. GMT).

They described the scene as chaotic, with some of the 460 students,
ranging in age from 12 to 18, breaking windows in an attempt to
escape.

When the police's special SWAT unit entered the high school they found
the gunman unconscious and in critical condition in the lower lobby of
the building with a gunshot wound to his head. Police assume he tried
to take his own life as no officers fired at him.

Several bodies were also found in the same location, where the
shooting is believed to have begun, they added.

They could not confirm comments by some students that Auvinen was
firing through doors.

Police also said that the gun Auvinen used, which was fully licensed,
had been purchased less than a month ago on October 19. The legal age
limit to own a gun in Finland is 18, which Auvinen passed in June of
this year.

He had a recommendation from a shooting club when he obtained the gun,
police added, and practised sharp-shooting as a hobby at a shooting
range.

Finland, which enjoys a strong tradition of hunting, has a high
proportion of gun ownership, with two million firearms owned in a
nation of only five million.

The Associated Press reported comments from Kim Kiuru, one of the
school's teachers, on radio station YLE.

Kiuru described how the headmistress used the public address system
around noon to tell pupils to stay in classrooms.

He said he locked his classroom door, then waited in the corridor for
more news.

"After that I saw the gunman running with what appeared to be a small-
caliber handgun in his hand through the doors towards me, after which
I escaped to the corridor downstairs and ran in the opposite
direction, " Kiuru said.

The agency reported Kiuru as saying that he saw a woman's body as he
fled the school, before telling his pupils to leave the building
through the windows.http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/11/07/school.shooting/index.html

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