Dugg: School Shooter Kills 8, Self in Finland | Newsvine – AP
“(…) An 18-year-old gunman opened fire at his high school in this placid town in southern Finland on Wednesday, killing seven other students and the principal before mortally wounding himself in a...
View ArticleDugg: Teenage Killer Leaves Suicide Note | Newsvine – AP
“(…) A bullied teenage outcast with radical views scribbled a suicide note bidding farewell to his family before unleashing an indiscriminate killing campaign at his high school, police said Thursday....
View ArticleDugg: Profile of Pekka-Erik Auvinen, the YouTube killer | NEWS.com.au
“(..) PEKKA-ERIC Auvinen sat among the chaos he had caused at Jokela High School, pressed a .22 calibre pistol against his skull and pulled the trigger. He had done what he had come to do. He had...
View ArticleDugg: Finland shocked at fatal shooting | BBC NEWS
“(…) Gun ownership per capita in Finland is the third highest in the world, although incidents of this kind are extremely rare in a country that prides itself on very low levels of violent crime. An...
View ArticleDugg: Police detain teen over YouTube massacre plot | NEWS.com.au
“(…) FINNISH police detained a teenager who allegedly posted a video on YouTube threatening a massacre similar to the one last week at a high school in Finland, police said. The 16-year-old was...
View ArticleDugg: Finland changes course on EU firearms directive | Helsingin Sanomat
“(…) The Finnish government decided on Friday to propose a change in the law on firearms, restricting the acquisition of guns by those under the age of 18. Until now guns have been available to...
View ArticleDugg: YouTuber Warned of Finnish Gunman in June, But No One Listened | Wired.com
“(…) months before the fateful video was posted, one prolific YouTube user known as TheAmazingAtheist called for the police to investigate Auvinen and others who had been posting videos glorifying the...
View ArticleDugg: Lawyer: U.S. teen had no warning of Finnish school shooter’s plans |...
“(…) NORRISTOWN, Pennsylvania (CNN) — A Pennsylvania teen jailed on suspicion of plotting a Columbine-style attack on his old school exchanged e-mail with the disturbed student who killed eight people...
View ArticleEleven dead in second Finnish school massacre within a year [UPDATE: Police...
[UPDATE, 18:22 GMT+02:00: The shooter, 22-year-old Matti Juhani Saari, has died of his head injuries in hospital around five o’clock in the afternoon, bringing the death tool to eleven.] [UPDATE, 15:58...
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One of the tabloids wrote on Thursday that a contingent of American reporters was being flown to Finland to come and see what’s going on here after the most recent Finnish school massacre in Kauhajoki....
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