Pekka-Eric Auvinen

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, which is thought to have been heavily inspired by Auvinen.

At approximately 11:40 (09:40 UTC), Pekka-Eric Auvinen entered Jokela High School's ground-floor main hallway, having missed his first lesson.

He encountered a student in the corridor and killed him at 11:42, then moved to the lavatories.

Soon after, other students found the victim's body but assumed he was rendered unconscious from a bump to his head.

Other students heard the sound of gunshots but did not recognise them.

At the lavatories, Auvinen fatally shot two more students, prompting the school nurse to call emergency services.

After shooting and killing a student outside the lavatory, Auvinen ran after the nurse, caught up to her, and fatally shot her and another student at 11:46.

At 11:47, head teacher Helena Kalmi was alerted to the shooting by the deputy head teacher.

She immediately ordered all students and teachers via PA system to barricade themselves inside their classrooms.

After this, Auvinen began shouting and firing randomly, discharging his gun a total of 53 times in the corridors.

At one point, he encountered the mother of a student as she was entering the school but spared her.

Auvinen then attempted to enter a classroom, shooting three times through the barricaded door and hitting a student in the toe.

Auvinen then moved on to the school's second floor and found two students sitting on a bench in the corridor.

While one student escaped uninjured, the other was shot and killed.

Auvinen began pouring two-stroke engine fuel (a petrol and oil mixture) on corridor walls and floors, but he was not able to ignite the fuel.

He then went to the school canteen on the first floor and tried to enter, but the sliding glass doors were locked.

After demanding to be let in, Auvinen fired through the glass, hitting some chairs inside.

People hiding in the canteen were able to escape through the other end of the room and hid in the rooms behind the kitchen.

No one in the canteen was injured.

At 11:54, Kalmi left the school with the education welfare officer and stopped between the building and a nearby pond to talk on the telephone.

The education welfare officer went on ahead to the car park to guide rescue vehicles into the area.

Auvinen, cursing, emerged from the school and encountered Kalmi, who tried to convince him to surrender.

At 11:57, he shot her seven times in view of a group of students in the schoolyard, fatally wounding her.

Auvinen reentered the school, went back to the first floor, and began walking around, knocking on classroom doors.

He then managed to enter an occupied comprehensive-school classroom.

Inside, he shouted orders at some of the students, proclaimed a revolution, and urged the students to destroy school property.

Despite firing two shots at a television set and a window, Auvinen left the classroom without shooting anyone.

A few minutes later, Auvinen spotted the first responding police officers and paramedics converging at the area of the inner court.

He fired a shot at them through a window, but the bullet failed to penetrate the glass.

At 12:03, Auvinen took another position near the main entrance and fired two more shots at police officers who tried to approach and negotiate with him.

No officers were hit.

Soon afterward, he walked into the lavatory next to the canteen and threw his jacket and bag on the floor.

After that Auvinen shot himself in the head, ending the shooting at 12:04.

Auvinen was found and taken to the Töölö campus of Helsinki University Central Hospital at 14:45, where he died at 22:15 from the gunshot wound.

The Jokela school shooting also known as the Jokela High School massacre occurred on 7 November 2007, at Jokela High School in the town of Jokela, Tuusula, Finland.

The gunman, 18-year-old Pekka-Eric Auvinen, entered the school 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 glass or sprained ankles.

Auvinen died later that evening in a Helsinki hospital.

This was the second school shooting in the history of Finland.