YouTube massacre:Schoolboy gunman posts threat on the internet then kills eight By DAVID WILLIAMS - More by this author » Last updated at 09:10am on 8th November 2007 A teenager ran amok in his school yesterday, killing seven fellow pupils and the headmistress hours after posting a chilling prediction of the massacre on the internet. As more than a dozen other pupils were treated in hospital for gunshot wounds, witnesses said the 18-year-old gunman had clinically walked from classroom to classroom at Joleka High School in southern Finland, selecting his victims before shooting them. Terrified pupils jumped for their lives from windows before the killer shouted: "This is the start of the revolution" and shot himself in the head. The gunman in the YouTube posting he updated hours before the killings He died in hospital last night. The gunman, named by Finnish newspapers as Pekka-Eric Auvinen, had updated his posting on the YouTube video site only hours before the massacre, warning that he planned to "eliminate all who I see unfit". Wearing a black T-shirt proclaiming "Humanity is Overrated", the short-haired teenager is seen brandishing a handgun at the camera. He says his weapon of choice will be a semi-automatic .22 pistol and that his targets are "students and faculty, society, humanity, human race." He adds: "I am the law, judge and executioner. There is no higher authority than me." The murders happened in Tuusula, a small town 40 miles from the Finnish capital Helsinki. Teacher Kim Kiuru said the first he knew of the incident was when the headmistress announced over the public address system just before noon (10am GMT) that all students should remain in their classrooms. "I stayed in the corridor to listen for more instructions, having locked my classroom door," he said. "I saw the youth running with a gun in his hand through the doors toward me. "It felt unreal, a pupil I have taught myself was running towards me, screaming, a pistol in his hand. "He was moving systematically through the school hallways, knocking on the doors and shooting through the doors. "I escaped to the corridor downstairs and ran in the opposite direction. "Then my pupils shouted at me out of the windows to ask what they should do and I told them to jump out of the windows. All my pupils were saved." Several times the gunman stopped to reload his pistol. Witnesses told how he fired clutching the gun in both hands and raising it in front of his face. As police marksmen surrounded the school its pupils, aged from 12 to 18, were evacuated to safety. Although Finland has the world's third-largest per capita handgun ownership, violent incidents are rare at the country's schools. Previous school confrontations have involved knives at worst and no one has died. Police chief Matti Tohkanen said the gunman had obtained a licence for his pistol on October 19 and had no criminal record. "He was from an ordinary family," he added. Tuusula mayor Hannu Joensivu said: "This is a peaceful place, nothing like this has happened in the past and nothing like this is to be expected either." Friends claimed he was not odd although had been acting strangely in the last few days. Tuomas Hulkkonen, who claimed to know the student well, said: "He withdrew into his shell. I had noticed a change in him just recently, and I thought that perhaps he was a bit depressed or something, but I couldn't imagine that in reality he would do anything like this." One theory was that the killer had been "inspired" by the 1999 Columbine school massacre in the United States in which 12 pupils and a teacher died. Songs by the band KMFDM, including Stray Bullet, were found on the website of one of the student killers, Eric Harris, and the same track was on Auvinen's web posting. It emerged that he was an admirer of Stalin and Hitler. His former girlfriend, who recently finished with him, denied she had pushed him over the edge. The 20 year-old said: "He was my boyfriend. I have received many emails and phone calls claiming it is my fault and that I am a murderer because I rejected him. "But many people are rejected without going out and murdering. "He did what he did because he was the person he was." Click here for the source and more pics.
^ Yea indeed you never know when it will happen at your own school. Shouldn't school be a safe place Q.Q
Yea most of those things happens in USA because they can get their guns easier. and now it spreads to Europe :S. It better not come to the Neth >.< MkUltra ??-unsure
i dont understand why... its just...why... that's weird how suddenly he went kinda dodge after ebing well, normal by looks of it...
Hmm...I think he plays too much CSS >_< HEADSHOT! HEADSHOT! How can someone be an admirer of Hitler OMG! -_- It was a very stupid idea. be shooted without reason, poor pupils.....
of all places i wouldn't have thought a place in europe! lets see, columbine, virginia tech, some school in eastern canada... >.< omg what the heck! condolences to the families and friends of victims
I would kick the shit outta that dude haha, but damn this is an unfortunate situation, again if you don't value life, then take your own and not others...
He sure failed on that subject, idiot trying to target humanity with a pistol...and such a loser killing people just because his gf dumped him Project MKULTRA, or MK-ULTRA, was the code name for a CIA mind-control research program that began in 1950 Errr....and I thought it was Mario Kart Ultra at first >.<
hah nad i thought that only in america u got all these nutters running around in school with a gun on killingspree i think the parents/guardian are to blame for they should be punished instead of the kids
making guns legal for everyone to own sre has its advantages. let us remember those who were vitims of his violent rampage and may their relatives be comforted during these hard times
no they didn't argue for a pen, the moroccan threw a pen at another dude, and that dude went mad and after school he stabbed the moroccan for revenge...
