The Jokela school shooting occurred on 7 November 2007, at Jokela High School in Jokela, a town in the municipality of Tuusula, Finland. The gunman, 18-year-old student Pekka-Eric Auvinen, entered the school on that morning armed with a semi-automatic pistol. He killed eight people and wounded one person in the toe before shooting himself in the head; twelve others were also injured by flying shattered glass or sprained ankles. Youtuber Tj Kirk (The Amazing Athiest) had made several videos berating Pekka's views on religion, the world, and humanity and his use of the band KMFDM in his videos. Many of these videos were uploaded on the website Encyclopedia Dramatic. It is unknown how long these videos were up, but it is believed that Tj deleted them after the Jokela massacre. Pekka's YouTube channel "Sturmgeist89" was soon deleted after the massacre.
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