date coordinates perp location timezone title article_title fatalities target injuries time weapons type
yes 2007 11 7 60 : fi-18_type : event inline , title 32 56 n 024 57 49 e region pekka-eric auvinen jokela , tuusula , finland utc +2 jokela school massacre jokela school shooting
 9 -lrb- including the perpetrator -rrb- jokela high school 13 -lrb- 1 by gunfire -rrb- 11:44 -- 12:24 sig mosquito .22 calibre school , attempted arson shooting , mass murder , murder -- suicide
jokela school shooting

the jokela school shooting occurred on 7 november 2007 , at jokela high school in jokela , a town in the municipality of tuusula , finland .
the gunman , 18-year-old student pekka-eric auvinen , entered the school on 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 shattered glass or sprained ankles .
auvinen died later that evening in a helsinki hospital .
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 in kauhajoki , where a gunman shot and killed ten people before killing himself .
