Tero Toivola, a 14 year old student at the Raumanmeri secondary school fatally shot two of his classmates using a pistol that belonged to his father.

[3] As the morning assembly was nearing its end, the shooter grabbed a Mauser-branded pistol, which belonged to his father, from his backpack.

[3][6][4] After fatally wounding two of his classmates, the shooter ran out the backdoor of the school with his backpack and two of his father's guns with him.

[1] The school decided to let the students go home, which made the search for the perpetrator slightly more difficult.

[4] During the escape, the shooter purposefully walked along a small river, to hide his scent from the police dogs.

[5] During the ride to a police station, the driver asked the shooter how he felt, to which he simply responded with; "Did the third one also die?

"[4] After the shooting, it became apparent that the shooter felt himself to be a victim of bullying and targeted students that he had disagreements with.

[8] The police report came to a conclusion that the shooting wasn't the result of bullying, but that the shooter had a mental breakdown for other reasons.

In a psychiatric evaluation the shooter was found to have committed the shooting in an unstable space of mind.