One of just three school shootings in the history of Finland, the Kauhajoki School Shooting occurred on September 23rd 2008 at the Seinajoki University of Applied Sciences in Western Finland. The gunman, 22-year-old student Matti Juhani Saari, shot and fatally injured 10 people with a gun, before shooting himself in the head. He died a few hours later in Tampere University Hospital. Saari was a second-year student in a Bachelor of Hospitality Management degree program at the university.