and deep incised wound reaching the cervical spine. The apartment had no signs of struggle. Shooter Ibrahim Shkupolli (1966 – 31 December 2009) was born in Mitrovica, Kosovo, worked as a grocer, and had resided illegally in Finland since 1990. He entered Finland through Norway in 1990. Shkupolli worked in a warehousing company that delivered to the Prisma supermarket chain. Shkupolli had been married to a Kosovar Albanian woman with whom he had three children but maintained an on-off relationship with his Finnish girlfriend both before and after the marriage. In both of his former and present municipalities of residence, Mikkeli and Espoo, restraining orders had been imposed on him after his girlfriend filed charges about his behavior and numerous threats, including one to kill her. The order imposed by the court barred him from approaching both her and her job location. It is thought that he believed she had begun a relationship with one of the supermarket staff, and that this was the motive for his crimes. He had been convicted of assault in 2001 and possession of a 7.65 mm hand gun and associated rounds of ammunition in 2003 and 9 x 18 mm cartridges in 2007 as well as possession of narcotics. He was also under investigation for being involved in a human trafficking ring that organises illegal immigration from the Balkans to Finland. These and other offenses including unlawful threats and traffic violations had led the Finnish Immigration Service to reject his application for Finnish citizenship. His motives may have been a mixture of a grudge with his former employer Prisma, and the fact that he believed that his girlfriend had started a new relationship with a Prisma employee after breaking up with Shkupolli. See also Myyrmanni bombing Sanna Sillanpää References External links Massacres in Finland Deaths by firearm in Finland Leppävaara Mass murder in 2009 Murder–suicides in Finland Mass shootings in Finland Spree shootings in Finland Suicides by firearm in Finland Attacks on shopping malls December 2009 crimes 2009 murders in Finland 2009 mass shootings in Europe December 2009 events in Europe