# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/pekka-eric-auvinen
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:00:50.093Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/pekka-eric-auvinen"
name: "Pekka Eric Auvinen"
slug: "pekka-eric-auvinen"
description: "On 7 November 2007, a mass shooting occurred at Jokela High School in the town of Jokela, Tuusula, Finland. The gunman, 18-year-old Pekka-Eric Auvinen, entered the school that morning armed with a semi-automatic pistol. He killed eight people and wounded one before shooting himself in the head; twelve others were also injured by flying glass or by spraining their ankles during the ensuing chaos. Auvinen died later that evening in a hospital in Helsinki."
tagline: "Finnish mass murderer and school shooter.(1989–2007)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Finland_Jokela_HighSchool-yard.JPG/330px-Finland_Jokela_HighSchool-yard.JPG"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1989-06-04"
deathDate: "2007-11-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.51
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.501982666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pekka-Eric_Auvinen"
    title: "Pekka-Eric Auvinen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pekka-Eric_Auvinen"
    title: "Pekka-Eric Auvinen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pekka-Eric_Auvinen"
    title: "Pekka-Eric Auvinen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pekka-Erik_Auvinen"
    title: "Pekka-Erik Auvinen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D1%83%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%BD%2C_%D0%9F%D0%B5%D0%BA%D0%BA%D0%B0-%D0%AD%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BA"
    title: "Аувинен, Пекка-Эрик"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pekka-Eric_Auvinen"
    title: "Pekka-Eric Auvinen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2089963"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump