School shooting in Tuusula Finland.

**Kagemusha** · 11-07-2007, 14:36

Today about 12pm a 18 year old male high school student started shooting people in Jokela school center in Tuusula. So far what is told in news, there is 1 confirmed dead, the principle of the school and 14 wounded, 4 seriously. My condolences to the families affected. This is black day for our country indeed.

Linky to the Finnish news site in English:

http://www.yle.fi/news/left/id74371.html

EDIT: Just a moment a go the Hospital of Töölö informed that there are several dead.

**Fragony** · 11-07-2007, 14:41

Already started a thread but I guess this one is more apropiate.

**Kagemusha** · 11-07-2007, 14:45

Im sorry Frag.Didnt really look the backroom before started the thread.Ofcourse the threads can be merged. Im very afraid how bad this will turn out. In Finnish news the police has just sayed that the shooter isnt danger to anyone anymore, but they did not say anything how he has been neutralized.

**Fragony** · 11-07-2007, 14:53

Mine wouldn't be a great loss, I didn't realise it was this bad.

**Gregoshi** · 11-07-2007, 15:18

My condolences to you and your country and especially to the families affected, Kagemusha. These kinds of things are always more shocking when they occur where you least expect it.

**LittleGrizzly** · 11-07-2007, 15:18

damn video has gone off you tube... does anyone now why he did this ?

usual teen anxst combined with a screw or 2 loose...?

my condolences to familys and friends of those involved..

**The Wizard** · 11-07-2007, 15:26

How many has he killed? Latest news I've heard (Finnish police radio) says eight dead plus the shooter's suicide. School's principal is apparently one of the victims.

EDIT: Nope, no teen angst. The man was an admirer of Hitler, went by the name of "NaturalSelector89" on Battlefield 2, and had a manifesto up on his YouTube profile speaking of "natural selection" and "death to the idiocracy" by which he meant democracy, which he apparently believed was rule by the dumb masses (which would properly be called an ochlocracy, but I digress); he wanted rule by the intelligent. In it he emphasized that this was his own choice and had nothing to do with the music he listened or the games he listened. Yesterday he uploaded a video called "Jokela school massacre". This was planned.

EDIT2: Now I hear only 1 dead, and then 3. Anybody got any reliable numbers?