September 23, 2008
'YouTube' gunman kills 10 in shooting spree at Finnish vocational college
A Finnish student who killed ten people in a college massacre today had been questioned by police only yesterday about a YouTube video showing him firing a pistol on a shooting range. The Times Online reports.
According to The Globe and Mail, "the gunman's YouTube account was removed after his name was reported in connection with the shootings, but a number of sites had already copied many of the videos and taken screenshots of his YouTube page.
Although several of the videos show Saari firing a pistol, and violent lyrics from a German heavy metal band appear on the page -- where one of his favourites is a video related to the Columbine school shootings -- there are no explicit signs that he planned a school rampage, apart from the "You will die next" video clip. What more could the authorities have done?"
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