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Finland School Shooting Linked to YouTube

Posted Nov 7, 07 11:20 AM CST in Technology,  Crime & Courts,  World 

(Newser) – At least eight people are dead at a high school in Finland where an 18-year-old opened fire today, CNN reports, and the killer seems to have left warnings of the spree on YouTube. Suspected gunman Pekka-Eric Auvinen, in critical condition at a hospital north of Helsinki, posted a video earlier today titled "Jokela High School Massacre - 11/7/2007."

The shooting is thought to be the first of its kind in Finland, CNN reports. The killer's YouTube user name is believed to be "Sturmgeist89"—German for "storm spirit"—and the teen is thought to have had a fascination with Hitler and Stalin. Auvinen also published a manifesto in which he pledged to die in a battle against the "weak-minded masses."

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Pupils leave the Jokela high school in Tuusula, Finland, Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2007 with their parents after a shooting. At least seven people were killed after an 18-year-old man opened fire at the Jokela...   (Associated Press)
Armed police officers stand guard a temporary crisis center in the church of Jokela after a shooting in the Jokela high school in Tuusula, Finland, Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2007. An 18-year-old man opened fire...   (Associated Press)
Pupils are evacuated from the Jokela high school in Tuusula, Finland, Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2007 where a teenager opened fire at a school in southern Finland on Wednesday, shooting four people - one of them...   (Associated Press)
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