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description of the shooter on the radio and said if a person matching the description were to come and ask someone for something, for example water, it was to be given to him and then reported to the police. At about 9:30, a woman living on
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guns used in the shooting belonged to. The school however denied that the shooter had ever been bullied. In some speeches made to the public about the shooting, violent television shows were blamed. 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.
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pistol in his backpack, which he did not use. The shooter, who was described to appear nervous by an eyewitness, raised the pistol and attempted to fire at a classmate. The gun didn't go off, which resulted in the shooter attempting to fire three times before the gun finally went off, after the
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pierced through it. The shooter then shot at an escaping boy, but missed as the boy fell to the ground before the shot was fired. 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.
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pistol, which belonged to his father, from his backpack. It was well known in class that the shooter was interested in guns, and he had presented them to others before. He also had a
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460:"Sampsa selvisi hengissä Suomen ensimmäisestä kouluammuskelusta - Kun 14-vuotias poika surmasi kaksi luokkatoveriaan, aikuiset pakottivat lapset kokemaan helvetin uudelleen"
269:, near the town of Hankkila. 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?"
502:"Poliisi pääsi kouluampujan jäljille, kun janoinen poika meni pyytämään vettä karkumatkalla – tuore kirja kertoo uutta tietoa Suomen ensimmäisestä kouluampumisesta"
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