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 by spraining their ankles during the ensuing chaos.

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

[4] 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.

[4] Police found Auvinen laying on the floor of the bathroom and he was taken to the Töölö campus of Helsinki University Central Hospital at 2:45, where he died at 10:15pm from the gunshot wound.

They believed he was still alive and moved him out of the school to receive first aid, but a doctor determined that the victim had already died by the time he was found.

[4][9][10][11][13] All of the following were killed in the shooting (minus the perpetrator):[14] Pekka-Eric Auvinen (4 June 1989 – 7 November 2007), an 18-year-old student at Jokela High School, was born in Tuusula, Uusimaa, Finland.

According to the official report filed by the National Bureau of Investigation, Auvinen did moderately well in school and had plans to graduate in the following spring.

Between December 2006 and January 2007, Auvinen's parents tried to get him referred to a psychiatric outpatient clinic for his depression and anxiety, but the offer was refused due to his perceived mild symptoms.

Auvinen would go on to tell his online acquaintance that he would not be making it to military service the following months, leaving several other cryptic and homicidal messages with her the day before his attack.

[4][18] Auvinen had apparently been planning the shooting since at least early March 2006 before he met any of the YouTubers or online gamers who had later been blamed for the massacre.

[4] Auvinen had a number of online accounts, including two YouTube accounts under the aliases of "Sturmgeist89" and "NaturalSelector89" on which he uploaded videos about school shootings and violent incidents, including the Columbine High School massacre, the Waco siege, the Tokyo subway sarin attack, and bombing during the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

She was also connected to Dillon Cossey, a 14-year-old boy who would be arrested in October on suspicion of planning an attack on his school in a suburb of Philadelphia.

[20][21][22][23][24][25] A spokesman for the cyber crime department of Helsinki police has stated that "it's highly probable that there was some form of contact between Pekka-Eric Auvinen and Dillon Cossey".

It contained pictures of himself, his firearm, Jokela High School, one undisclosed music file, and three documents in Finnish and English.

The text is an amalgamation of Auvinen's favourite various socially-critical thinkers, including Plato and Friedrich Nietzsche, and also contains references to the Unabomber manifesto.

He refers to his actions as a "total war against humanity" and rationalizes his massacre by depicting it as a rightful culling of the weak-minded majority.

Auvinen had also left suicide notes on his computer directed towards his parents the night before the massacre, with one beginning, "By the time you're reading this, I'm probably already dead."

Auvinen had received his gun licence in October, then purchased a .22-calibre SIG Sauer Mosquito and 500 rounds of ammunition on 2 November, five days before the shooting.

His manifesto expressed anger at his social alienation and called on "strong-minded and intelligent individuals" to revolt against the "idiocracy" of the "weak-minded masses".

[36] Flags were flown at half-staff on 8 November throughout the country by officials and private entities alike, and the Finnish government held a moment of silence while in session.

Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen sent "his government's heartfelt condolences", strongly noting the need for the media, parents and schools to discuss the incident in the correct light.

The Finnish National Board of Education immediately posted directions for the teachers and principals on how to discuss the shootings with pupils, along with shorter instructions for parents.

[40] A number of groups appeared on IRC-Gallery and Facebook to grieve or commemorate the victims [41] The Lutheran Archbishop Jukka Paarma of Turku, the Orthodox Archbishop Leo of Karelia, the Catholic Bishop Józef Wróbel of Helsinki and other church authorities expressed their condolences to the relatives and loved ones of those who died in the massacre.

"[46] On 13 November, the Finnish government announced that it would set up a "Commission of Inquiry to investigate the Jokela school shooting and events that bear relevance to the incident".

[48] According to the Finnish Ministry of Justice, a legislative process aimed at establishing an enabling Act covering the Terms of an official Investigative Commission would be finalised by the end of March 2008.

The police reminded prospective perpetrators of severe judicial consequences as well as of the feelings of the families touched by the Jokela events.

The gunman, 22-year-old culinary arts student Matti Juhani Saari, shot and fatally injured ten people with a semi-automatic pistol, before shooting himself in the head.