Former Finnish peacekeeper shoots 2 men before committing suicide (a week's returned from Kosovo)

Canadian Press ^ | May 18, 2008

[joan]

HELSINKI, Finland — A Finn who served as a peacekeeper in Kosovo until a week ago fatally shot a man and wounded another before shooting himself dead in northern Finland, police said Sunday.

Officers investigating the incident said they did not know of a motive, and declined to name the gunman.

Witnesses told police the man had arrived outside a popular nightclub in the town of Rovaniemi, near the Arctic Circle, at about 3 a.m. and opened fire with a revolver as people came out of the club. Officers also found a hunting rifle by the dead gunman.

The man, who was in his 20s, had returned to Finland about a week ago after serving as a peacekeeper in Kosovo, police said.

[joan]

"The man, who was in his 20s, had returned to Finland about a week ago after serving as a peacekeeper in Kosovo, police said."

Surely his Kosovo service has to be a significant factor since it happened so soon after he came back and during the readjustment time to back home.

[1rudeboy]

Maybe some Albanians had something to do with it? Just asking.

[The Electrician]

Has Mayor Bloomberg linked the shooting to lax gun laws in the United States? If not yet, when is he expected to do so?

[fieldmarshaldj]

May the victims RIP.

[muawiyah]

Rovaniemi (reindeer crossing, in America that'd be Mule Crossing, aka Seymour) ~ and the guy is having some difficulties as the day lengthens and he's just come out of necessarily stressful field duty.

I'd check to see if he had Scandinavian Porphyria. Had to hide the hunting rifles from my aunt's husband more than once.