Jokela High School Shooting in Finland Leaves at least Eight Dead

An 18-year-old gunman opened fire at a high school in Finland on Wednesday leaving at least eight dead and wounding several others.

Pekka-Eric Auvinen, the student believed to be responsible for the massacre at Jokela High, had posted several video messages on the popular video-sharing site YouTube outlining his plans of the attack.

Many of the video clips uploaded by Pekka-Eric Auvinen contained music from the rock band KMFDM, a group quoted by Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, the masterminds behind the Columbine High School massacre.

“Sturmgeist89” was the YouTube avatar used by Pekka-Eric Auvinen to broadcast his several clips containing violent messages and scenes of the Columbine killings, the bombing of Iraq and the sarin gas attacks in Tokyo.

Auvinen posted a clip Wednesday titled “Jokela High School Massacre” in which he said he chose the name Sturmgeist because it meant “storm spirit” in German.

Among those killed in the shooting was the school’s headmistress. Auvinen is belived to be in critical condition after trying to take his own life in the attack

Jokela High School is located in the small town of Tuusula, about 30 miles north of Helsinki.

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