The Kauhajoki school shooting occurred on 23 September 2008 , at Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences in Kauhajoki , a town in Western Finland . 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 . He died a few hours later in Tampere University Hospital . Finnish police first stated that Saari " very likely " knew Pekka-Eric Auvinen , but in the final investigation no proof of that was found
Kauhajoki school shooting
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