Pekka-Eric Auvinen

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Pekka-Eric Auvinen Full Name: Pekka-Eric Auvinen Alias: NaturalSelector89 Natural selector Sturmgeist89 The Youtube Killer Origin: Tuusula, Uusimaa, Finland Occupation: Student Youtuber Skills: High intelligence Gunmanship Hobby: Shooting Uploading Youtube videos Goals: Eliminate the "disgraces of the human race" and put natural selection back on tracks (failed) Crimes: Mass murder Attempted arson Xenophobia Christophobia Anti-Semitism Terrorism Islamophobia Anti-Hindu sentiment Persecution of Buddhists Type of Villain: Misanthropic School Shooter

“	No mercy for the scum of the earth. Humanity is overrated. It’s time to put natural selection and survival of the fittest back on tracks.	„
	~ Excerpt from Auvinen's manifesto.

Pekka-Eric Auvinen, also known as The YouTube Killer, (June 4th, 1989 - November 7th 2007) was a Finnish mass murderer responsible for committing a school shooting at Jokela High School in Tuusula, Finland. It was the second ever school shooting in the history of Finland.

He had been bullied since elementary school and had been shot with pellet guns on his way to school. He was described by his teachers as a bright student with a keen interest in history.

On the day of the attack, Pekka-Eric Auvinen posted a video on Youtube predicting the massacre. He also posted a thread on 4chan stating "Bye, going to shoot people at my school in jokela now". In the initial attack, Auvinen killed 8 people, including the school principal, Helena Kalmi. He also attempted to burn the school down by splashing kerosene to the walls. After killing the pupils, he shot himself in the head and died hours later in hospital.

Psychology

Mental health

Pekka-Eric Auvinen suffered from depression, panic disorder and anxiety and tried to be cured from them by taking SSRIS, but he would take them irregularly. This deteriorated his already troubled mental health, worsening his problems.

Personality

As a child, he was descrived as a sunny and happy boy who was kind and calm. At school, teachers looked at him as a well-behaved and talkative to those who spoke with him face-to-face. But he was also described as a shy person who could be easily intimidated and could get scared even for the most normal like asking for a summer job. However, he had already at a young age a complex of superiority, believing himself to be a god compared to other people and believing that he was in the next stage of human evolution. He was so egotistical due to the unshackability in his opinions and hated when people proved that he was wrong or that there was something that would rectify his views. This unshackability is derived from his being overreactive to thing, according to student Juho Jarviven. This driven him to isolate himself from others, so much that he never had actual friends at school. In his isolation, he grew violent desires, seeing them as way to assert dominance.

Ideology

While for his philosophical views, he held various ideologies, including cynicism, Social Darwinism, nihilism, militant atheism and antihumanism, describing humanity as overrated and a species among other animals.

Politically speaking, he had an obsession with revolutionary history and held extremist views aligned with both the far left and the far-right. He had admiration for Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Seung Hui Cho, Timothy McVeigh, Eric Harris, Dylan Klebold, Jeffrey Dahmer, and Ted Kaczynski.

Biography

Early life

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Pekka-Eric Auvinen as a newborn in his father's arms.

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A 10-year-old Pekka-Eric Auvinen dressed for Halloween.

Pekka-Eric Auvinen was born on the 4th June 1989 in Tuusula, Uusimaa, Finland, in a family composed by musician, with his father Ismo Auvinin, who worked at National Railway company, and his mother Mikaela Vuorio, who worked in a hospital as a healthcare professional, being guitarists. He grew up in the rural area of Tuusula, in Jokela, living a peaceful and quiet childhood.

He attended along with his older brother a local primary school, but he would move to Jokela High School. There, he excelled normally in school and he score high among his fellow students. Despite this, he was sadly target of "long term" bullying, especially during middle school. Students physically and mentally harmed him by throwing him into halls and calling names.

Change in behavior

School documents report that a lot of students were annoyed by his behavior, since he would threatened them several times and he would say to them that they will die in a "white revolution". He expressed tons of times worldviews of a radical militant who would take inspiration from both the far-right and far-left. During this period, he changed his political views, moving from Communism to Nazism, but he said that he wasn't supporting any these two ideologies and said that he was just studying them. Also, he experienced in his teens severe anxiety and depression, adding to extreme thoughts even unstable emotions too.

Troubled Mental Health

On the autumn of 2006, his parents started to worry about his mental health and tried to refer him to a clinical psychologist to have a confirmation of the problems his mental health. After being examined by a psychologist, his depression and anxiety started to become more mild.

He started taking SSRIS, but he would often abuse his prescription and would miss days or weeks of his medication at a time. His irregular and undiscipline take of medicines deteriorated his mental health, isolating himself from others even more.

This isolation led him to stay for more time on his computer, becoming fascinated by dark and violent content on the Internet such like videos of school shooting and of terroristic attacks.

Career on YouTube

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Screenshot of Pekka-Eric Auvinen's second channel: sturmgeist89.

On the 15th of March, 2007, he created his first channel: NaturalSelector89. He would spread his radical views through his videos which consisted in reuplouding footage of sensitive events and idolizing violent killers, criticizing religion or modern politics and discuss his belief in "social darwinism", gathering both attention and controversy.

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Pekka-Eric Auvinen insulting TheAmazingAtheist in a comment on YouTube.

On the pltaform, he would have a little drama with famous youtuber TheAmazingAtheist who criticized his opinions and deconstucted them.

During summer 2007, he had a relationship with a German girl who was going under the username of "tanascheel". However, their relationship didn't last long, since tanascheel left him to stay with a guy named "Steve" she met online. This greatly afflicted Auvinen and he felt great anger towards his ex-girlfriend.

On the 19th October 2007, his channel was ultimately terminated for violating the guidelines of YouTube, but he created another account called "sturmgeist89" in which he would post the same type of videos he did before, but he would also upload videos of him playing videogames like "Codename: 47" and other violent videogames. By autumn 2007, he became more outspoken with his views and his opinions became even more radical while continuing to isolate himself furthermore.

Owning a gun

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Pekka-Eric Auvinen training with his gun in the woods while recording his video "Just Testing My Gun" uploaded on the 5th November 2007.

On the 31st August of 2007, he became a registered member of the Helsinki Shooting Club and attended a one-hour session. On the mid-October 2007, after a succesful application, he purchased a SIG Mosquito .22 calibre semi automatic pistol. On the 2nd November 2007, he purchased over 500 rounds of ammunition for his firearm. During this period, Auvinen was becoming more outspoken with his opinions and more violent in his behavior. This didn't went unnoticed, since TheAmazingAtheist himself posted a video regarding people who admired Columbine killers, saying that they are dangerous and in his list of names there were also Auvinen's YouTube username.

Relationship with Vaula

Also, Auvinen had a friendship with a woman called Vaula Kuuluvainen that he met through IRC Galleria, a finnish social networking social media, and met her in a group char called "Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold". Both of them admired school shooters and ,on the same day he posted his video depicting him training with his gun, he had a lenghty conversation with her and told her about his desire of doing a school shooting in a very vague way and told her that he had a plan to make it. The next day, they had another conversation with each other, but during the conversation, Auvinen started actin even more strange, since his sentences were shorter than the usual ones and was nervous. During this time, he apologized to his ex-girlfriend for his behavior and to TheAmazingAtheist for all the agressive messages he sended to him.

Writing his manifesto

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One of the photos on the file package: Pekka-Eric Auvinen with a SIG Mosquito .22 calibre semi automatic pistol and a black shirt with "Humanity is Overrated" written on it.

On the 6th November 2007, he had written a manifesto and other files written in both English and Finnish on a file package along with pictures of him, his firearm, his shirt, Jokela High School and one undisclosed music file published on Rapidshare.com. On that file, he expressed his worldviews referring to Plato, Friedrich Nietzsche and Theodore John Kaczynski.

The Jokela High School Massacre

At 8:37 a.m., Auvinen missed his first class and was surfing on the Internet. At 9:33 a.m., he uploaded his final video called "Jokela High School Massacre - 11/7/2007". The video shows an image of Jokela High School, before fading to two red photos of Auvinen with his gun. The song "Stray Bullet" by KMFDM is playing in the background throughout the video.

Pekka Eric Auvinen entered Jokela High School on November 7th, 2007 at 11:40 am., armed with a SIG Mosquito .22 calibre semi automatic pistol. After having missed his first scheduled class, Auvinen began the deadly massacre on the first floor in the school's main hallway. At approximately 11:42 in the same hallway, Auvinen encountered and killed a student before moving on to the lavatories and shooting another two students.

Having heard the gunshots, the school nurse contacted emergency services. Unfortunately, her actions did not go unnoticed and she was chased and murdered by the perpetrator soon after another student was killed outside of the lavatories. Another student was also fatally shot during this altercation.

After being informed of the shooting by another teacher, head teacher Helena Kalmi instructed Jokela students via PA system to barricade and stay put inside of classrooms. Auvinen reacted to this by firing sporadically a total of 53 times whilst shouting. During this time, the shooter encountered the mother of a student attending the high school but ultimately spared her. Afterwards, Pekka Eric Auvinen attempted to invade a classroom but was unable to and instead shot his weapon three times underneath the door, hitting a student in the toe.

Auvinen continued his rampage by trekking to the second floor of the school, where he encountered two students sitting together on a bench. One of the students was fatally shot whilst the other escaped unscathed.

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Signs of two-stroke engine fuel put by Auvinen on walls and floors.

Auvinen briefly ceased fire and instead began pouring two-stroke engine fuel on the walls and floors of the corridor. Luckily, he was unsuccessful with his intentions of igniting said fuel. After this failed attempt, Auvinen returned to the first floor of the school where he had began his rampage and made his way to the canteen. Precautions were made, however, and the sliding glass doors that served as an entrance to the canteen were locked. Auvinen shot through the glass after demanding to be let in and receiving no response. By this time, everyone hidden inside had safely escaped to the other side of the canteen and were able to hide in rooms behind the kitchen. Everyone who previously resided in the canteen survived the shooting entirely unscathed.

Meanwhile, Helena Kalmi left the interior of the school alongside the high school's education welfare officer. While talking on the phone and waiting outside of the building, Kalmi encountered a cursing Auvinen, who had also emerged from the building. After attempting to persuade the gunman to surrender, Kalmi was shot by Auvinen a total of seven times, fatally wounding her. During this time, the education officer who had previously accompanied Kalmi guided rescue vehicles who were arriving at the school.

After his encounter with Helena, Auvinen reentered the school through the first floor and ventured around the vicinity, knocking at classroom doors before successfully entering a comprehensive-school classroom that was occupied at the time. Luckily, everyone inside of the classroom was spared as Auvinen had apparently only entered the classroom to bark orders at the students, instructing them to vandalize and demolish school property.

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The Finnish Special Forces at the Jokela High School after reports of the shooting.

During this time, first responding police officers and paramedics who had arrived at the school converged together at the area of the inner court. Auvinen spotted them from inside of the school and attempted to shoot at them through the window but his bullets failed to puncture the glass. At 12:04, he trekked to the school's main entrance where he encountered an unspecified number of police officers. Similarly to Kalmi, the officers tried to converse with Auvinen but were fired at a total of two times by the gunman. None one was injured during this encounter. Afterward, he walked into the lavatory next to the canteen and threw his jacket and bag on the floor and shot himself in the head, ending the shooting at 12:04 a.m.

Victims

List of people who were killed by Auvinen during the school shooting:

• Sameli Nurmi, 17
• Ville Heinonen, 16
• Mikko Hiltunen, 17
• Ari Palsanen, 18
• Sirkka Kaarakka, 43
• Hanna Kinnunun, 25
• Mika Pulkkinen, 17
• Helena Kalmi, 61

Death

Auvinen was found and taken to the Töölö campus of Helsinki University Central Hospital at 14:45, where he died at 10:15 p.m. from the gunshot wound.

The total war against humanity manifesto

Hate, I'm so full of it and I love it. That is one thing I really love. Some time ago, I used to believe in humanity and I wanted to live a long and happy life but then I woke up. I started to think deeper and realized things. But it was not easy to become existential knowing as much as I know has made me unhappy, frustrated and angry. I just can’t be happy in the society or the reality I live. Due to long process of existential thinking, observing the society I live and some other things happened in my life… I have come to the point where I feel nothing but hate against humanity and human race.

Life is just a meaningless coincidence result of long process of evolution and many several factors, causes and effects. However, life is also something that an individual wants and determines it to be. And I’m the dictator and god of my own life. And me, I have chosen my way. I am prepared to fight and die for my cause. I as a natural selector, will eliminate all who I see unfit, disgraces of human race and failures of natural selection.

You might ask yourselves, why did I do this and what do I want. Well, most of you are too arrogant and closed-minded to understand You will proprably say me that I am insane, crazy, psychopath, criminal or crap like that. No, the truth is that I am just an animal, a human, an individual, a dissident.

I have had enough. I don’t want to be part of this fucked up society. Like some other wise people have said in the past, human race is not worth fighting for or saving only worth killing. But When my enemies will run and hide in fear when mentioning my name When the gangsters of the corrupted governments have been shot in the streets When the rule of idioracy and the democratic system has been replaced with justice When intelligent people are finally free and rule the society instead of the idiocratic rule of majority In that great day of deliverance, you will know what I want.

Long live the revolution revolution against the system, which enslaves not only the majority of weak minded masses but also the small minority of strong minded and intelligent individuals! If we want to live in a different world, we must act. We must rise against the enslaving, corrupted and totalitarian regimes and overthrow the tyrants, gangsters and the rule of idiocracy. I can’t alone change much but hopefully my actions will inspire all the intelligent people of the world and start some sort of revolution against the current systems. The system discriminating naturality and justice, is my enemy. The people living in the world of delusion and supporting this system are my enemies.

I am ready to die for a cause I know is right, just and true even if I would lose or the battle would be only remembered as evil I will rather fight and die than live a long and unhappy life.

And remember that this is my war, my ideas and my plans. Don’t blame anyone else for my actions than myself. Don’t blame my parents or my friends. I told nobody about my plans and I always kept them inside my mind only. Don’t blame the movies I see, the music I hear, the games I play or the books I read. No, they had nothing to do with this. This is my war: one man war against humanity, governments and weak-minded masses of the world! No mercy for the scum of the earth! HUMANITY IS OVERRATED! It’s time to put NATURAL SELECTION AND SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST back on tracks!

Humanity is Overrated
Justice renders to everyone his due.

Pekka Eric Auvinen (aka Natural-Selector-89, Natural Selector, Sturmgeist-89 and Sturmgeist).
I also use pseydonym Eric von Auffoin internationally.

Quotes

“	Hello everyone, this is me, NaturalSelector89, talking to you, friends and haters and everyone else. Um, I got this idea of making an introduction video, to my channel. Since I already have, um, over 130 videos, and not an introduction video yet, so, I guess it's a good time to make one, haha. Uh... and this is it, an introduction video, to my channel. Uh... I guess I have not much to say right now, but, I will make, um, more talking videos in the future, and until then, I will continue making my usual videos, which I hope you have enjoyed as well. Uh, I guess... this all for now, but, I'll see you later and... out.	„
	~ Pekka-Eric Auvinen in his introduction video

“	Religion is faith. Faith is not science, and is not based on facts. Faith enslaves weak-minded masses as delusional slaves. Ancient Greece, Rome, or Persian gods, or a Hindu god, or even a god of Abrahamic religions. All of them are created by humans. These gods do exist, but only in the minds of delusional, religious people, not in the real world. Holy body, holy crap is a strange *unintelligible*. Comedy, tragedy, action, fiction, horror, drama and much more, all wrapped up in one book. Perfect supernatural being God, created unperfect humans in his own image. What a fucking loser God really is. If there really is an almighty God, what more do you need to worship for, after even himself created? Besides finding eternal *unintelligible*. All you religious people: Christians, Muslims, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormons or any other religious people, you are worshiping wrong and fictional gods. The real God is sitting right here, talking to you. I am the God and the Anti-Christ of my own life. Fuck religions, fuck their beliefs, fuck their prophets, fuck their spirits and fuck their gods.	„
	~ Pekka-Eric Auvinen in a YouTube video where he expresses his hatred of religion

“	I am prepared to fight and die for my cause. I, as a natural selector, will eliminate all who I see unfit, disgraces of the human race and failures of natural selection.	„
	~ Pekka-Eric Auvinen in the description of his second channel, Sturmgeist89

“	10/19/2007 is a tragic day... day when one of the greatest accounts of YouTube - NaturalSelector89 - was suspended and banned. But it wasn't the end. It was a new beginning! 10/18/2007 is also the day when NaturalSelector89 came back! And here I am. with this new account.	„
	~ Pekka-Eric Auvinen in a video on his second channel, Sturmgeist89, after his first channel was suspended

“	Equality, tolerance and universal human rights are nothing but empty words that leads to devolution of human race. Democracy = inferior people as majority, voting for leaders that manipulate them and who decide the fate of who will be discriminated, arrested and casted out as insane or crazy. Natural selection and survival of the fittest... They are the best things on this planet. The human race will either totally die or then the fittest will survive and the scum will be perished. There should be only one master race on this planet. It would include human that are intelligent, self-aware, capable of defending themselves against any threats and living in armony with surrounding enviroment. Modern human race should never have been evolved and born... There are too many modern humans that are mistakes of natural selection and disgraces to human race. There are just too many weak-minded retards, ignorants idiots, mindless mass humans, fat bastards and lardies, mentally/physically disabled etc... And they are being protected by the laws of societies. Today the process of natural selection is totally misguided, because of all the irrational religions, political ideologies, states, laws and movements that believe in equality and humanity. But the truth is that there are no other universal laws but the laws of nature (natural selection, survival of the fittest, evolution etc...) and the laws of physics (density, velocity, gravity, time, energy etc...) Then there is the state that socializes people. People are overeducated only as robots for states and corporations. They are trained as part of the system and most of them will be from birth to grave. They are part of the huge masses, mindless herd with slave morality, controlled by a small amount of manipulative and charismatic leaders. In modern western democracies, media's job is to entertain and school's to educate the masses. These are the methods that government uses to connect individuals as part of the institutional structures and slaves of the system. There is no possibility to think indipendently or live ones lives naturally without being casted out as "psycho", "crazed", "insane", "immoral" etc... Modern western "democratic" societies are as much dictatorships as te many, communist, nazi, fascist and religious dictatorships in the past were. The modern democracy is just the most treacherous, trickiest, crooked and manipulative of them all. However, there are some outcasts and superior human beings resisting the system. They are discriminated as criminals and crazed individuals that should be punished, put to prison or a mental hospital. Individuals trying to live naturally but are being taught that it is wrong, usually will have some of the following: self-hatred, feelings of inferiority/superiority, hostility, aggression, suicidal/homicidal thoughts etc... States, governments and laws are nothing but air, poisonous air that infects most of the people as a part of the system. Im the dictator of my own life. It's time to put natural selection & survival of the fittest back on tracks! It's time to stop the process of devolution! There are at least two ways to achieve these goals: selective breeding and/or selective elimination... Humanity is overrated. There is still a chance to be antihuman, cruel and brutal...but if we ar not today, the hope for a better and improved humanity is lost.	„
	~ Pekka-Eric Auvinen describing his ideology in the video Philosophy of mine

Trivia

• He was named after famous guitarists Pekka Järvinen and Eric Clapton.

• His teacher Janne Nielsen played mini golf with Auvinen during free time in the evening for alleviating Auvinen's loneliness.
• When Auvinen was 12 years old, he was going to a school camping trip near the end of a schol year, but his teacher Janne Nielsen forgot his work phone. When his teacher Janne checked the phone, he had 10 missed calls from Auvinen's father, since this was the first time Auvinen was away from home.
• Another teacher of Auvinen's school, Kim Kiuru, said that around 8th/9th grade, a 14-year-old Auvinen was dressed in a suit and carried Karl Marx's book "the Communist Manifesto" as well Lenin's "Little Red Book".
• In class, he had a discussion with his fellow students and teacher Kim Kiuru about North Korea, justifying the actions of North Korean dictators, saying that it's okay to oppress people for the sake of a system. Not only that, in 2006, he made a post on an unknown website stating that the western media was making "false information" about the DPRK and that the portayal of north-korean dictatorship as evil was "propaganda".
• Since he was born in a family of musicians, Auvinen himself was also a musician and he even made a song called "Antisocial aggression".
• At the moment, only 28 of the 130+ videos made by Auvinen have been reuploaded on YouTube and in only in three of those recovered videos he directly appears on camera. Most of these videos are reuploaded by a channel on YouTube going under the name of "Uhtceare".
• He named his pistol "Catherine".
• Originally, he wanted to kill 1 to 5 people and he wanted to burn his principal's office.
• On the 8th October 2008, a channel named "finnbluus", channel owned by Auvinen's father, posted a video called "For Our Son", a video that shows images of Auvinen, from his childhood to his teens with "It's a long road" made by Jerry Goldsmith in the background. Please, don't harass the channel by any means.
• Less than a year later, Auvinen's online friend, Matti Saari, whom he had also played Battlefield with, committed another school shooting, this time in Kauhajoki. He also bought his gun from the same shop where Auvinen bought his SIG Sauer Mosquito.
• A woman named Karma Hietanen was so obsessed with Auvinen that she talked to Auvinen's grave 20 times a day and planned to commit a school shooting at an elementary school.
• Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold were big fans of the song played in Auvinen's last video.