Kauhajoki Killer "Bought Gun from Same Place" as Jokela High School Killer

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Yesterday’s shooting spree in Kauhajoki bears remarkable and highly disturbing similarities to last year’s Jokela High School shooting incident in Tuusula.
      Last November an 18-year-old local upper secondary school student Pekka-Eric Auvinen shot dead six students, a school nurse, and the headmaster in the middle of a school day. In the end Auvinen shot himself in the head in the school lavatory. He succumbed to his injuries in Helsinki’s Töölö Hospital the same night at 22:14.
     
In Kauhajoki, the 22-year-old Matti Juhani Saari also targeted his own school with his attack. Just like Auvinen, he entered the school in the morning with a big black bag, moved through the school hallways with a handgun, and eventually shot himself in the head.
      Both Saari and Auvinen had firearm certificates for 22-calibre handguns. Auvinen used a Sig Sauer Mosquito semi-automatic pistol. Saari’s weapon looks to have been a Walther P22. For both men the gun was their first, and last.
     
Both men had also uploaded videos and pictures of themselves on the Internet.
      Saari’s Internet files and profiles are nearly identical to those of Auvinen. In the videos the shooter shows off his handgun and fires it outdoors. In the photos the shooter poses defiantly with his weapon and points it straight at the camera. Both men had photo-manipulated one of the images so that it was red and black.
      The men’s appearance and their style of dress is also eerily similar. Both have blond hair that is combed back, and they both wear a black leather jacket or a dress shirt.
     
On the morning of the shooting, both men’s actions were uncanningly alike. Both Auvinen and Saari updated their Net profiles within hours of going out and killing several people.
      Auvinen wrote his last comments online and put the finishing touches to his suicide note - his manifesto - half an hour before commencing the shooting in the Jokela school at 11:42.
      Saari looks to have uploaded three more pictures to the Irc-Galleria networking site on Tuesday morning at 10:15. About half an hour later, he started his killing spree.
      Pekka-Eric Auvinen tried to set the Jokela school on fire, but failed in his attempts. On Tuesday there was a fire at the Kauhajoki School of Food Management, apparently started by Saari with a number of Molotov cocktail-style bottle bombs.
     
The Jokela killer did well in school, but was described as “weird” by friends close to him. Auvinen had been prescribed anti-depressant drugs, but because of patient queues was not directed to see a psychiatrist. Auvinen exhibited interest in extremist movements.
      In Matti Saari’s net profile there are also signs of misanthropy. For one, Saari listed “misanthropy and freedom” as his philosophies of life. Wikipedia describes misanthropy as general dislike, distrust, or hatred of the human species.
     

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POLICE are investigating reports that cold-blooded killer, Matti Juhani Saari, who shot dead 10 of his classmates, most of them female, before killing himself, may have had a direct contact with Jokela high school killer, Pekka Erik Auvinen.

Saari left behind notes in which he is alleged to have written that he had been planning the massacre for SIX years.

 

Police tonight a facing intense criticism for allowing Saari to contiune possessing a hand gun after arresting him the day before the shootings for uploading an explicit video onto YouTube in which he "copy-cats" Virgina Tech High Scholl Killer Cho Seung Hui and Pekka Erick Auvinen by pointing a handgun menacingly at the camera. - (Own words)

 

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Detectives believe gunman Matti Saari, who killed ten people at a college in the town of Kauhajoki, may have had contact with the killer of eight people at a school in Jokela last November.

They are examining email and telephone records and suggestions the guns for both massacres could have come from the same shop.

Tuesday's shooting was an almost carbon copy of that in November. Pekka Eric Auvinen, 18, also posted warnings on YouTube.

Both gunmen shot themselves and died later in hospital.

A source told Sky News: "It is something the police are looking at very closely because they believe there could have been a link or some contact between the two men."

Police have revealed that notes left behind by Saari at his flat in Kauhajoki showed his "hatred of humankind" and signs he had planned the killings for some time.