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Kauhajoki: Gunman Pumped 200 Bullets into his Classmates

by Christina 123 | September 30, 2008 at 09:29 am

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DETECTIVES have today revealed that Kauhajoki gunman Matti Saari, 22, fired up to two hundred shots during his killing spree at Kauhajoki vocational school, with one body at the autopsy showing it had twenty bullet wounds.

Police are examining Saari's computer and telphone records to establish whether or not there was a connection with the Jokela high school killer, Pekka-Eric Auvinen,18, who struck ten months ago at a school in Tuusula, just north of Helsinki.

In the meantime tough new laws against the possession of a handgun have been brought into force in Finland, with a mental health certifcate which expires in six month will be required, toether with a reason for needing a handgun. A preliminary investigation has been launched into why Saari was allowed to keep his weapons despite posting a threatening video on YouTube, for which he was arrested the day before the murders.

Police have concluded the technical investigation at the scene of last week’s school killings in Kauhajoki. Jari Neulaniemi of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) says that the suspect, Matti Saari probably fired nearly 200 shots during the shooting spree.
     After killing ten people, Saari apparently took his own life.
     Neulaniemi says that the shooter had several bullet clips with him.
     The case is being investigated as ten murders, and nine attempted murders.
     “Saari fired at the police and firefighters who arrived at the scene first. Three students managed to flee the classroom. In addition, the suspect shot at a school employee, and in questioning it has come out that he fired several shots at a teacher, but missed”, Neulaniemi says.
     One girl, who was injured in the attack, has not yet meen questioned.

Neulaniemi says that the suspect used his telephone during the shooting.
     “This came up in questioning, and was confirmed by telephone records.”
     He said that Saari’s telephone records will be examined from the time that the Jokela school shooter Pekka-Eric Auvinen was alive.
     Neulaniemi says that no connection between the two has yet been established. However, Saari’s computer is still under examination, and is expected to continue for several weeks.

The forensic autopsies of the victims were completed on Monday. Ismo Kopra of the victim identification unit of the NBI said that between one and 20 gunshot wounds were found in the victims.
     Kopra says that a single shot from the gun used by the shooter can be lethal. In a few days it will be determined if all of the victims actually died of the bullets, or if the fire that broke out may have caused any dea