Breaking News: Three dead in Jyväskylä shooting incident

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Breaking News: Three dead in Jyväskylä shooting incident

Woman and two children found alive from apartment; gunman believed to be among the dead

News is coming in of a shooting in the Central Finland city of Jyväskylä that has left three people dead, all of them men.
Emergency services received a call about shots being fired just after 8 a.m. this morning, after which six police units and emergency vehicles were despatched to an apartment block in the Pupuhuhta district of the city.

Inspector Arto Rajala reported that police had surrounded the crime scene and evacuated people from the surrounding apartments while awaiting the arrival of a canine unit and an armed swat team.
Calls to the apartment and shouts through the mailbox flap were not answered.
After an hour the specialist officers broke in and arrested those inside.
The bodies of two men, both shot, were found from the courtyard of the building when the police arrived, and a third man was found dead in the apartment. All had apparently died of gunshot wounds. Speaking at a press briefing in the late morning Insp. Rajala noted that the police had not been fully aware of how many persons were in the apartment at the time they broke down the door, or whether there would be an armed response to their entry.

An hour after the events, Rajala could not confirm details of whether there had been a firefight in the building, who the victims were, and whether the main perpetrator was among them. It later became clear that the gunman was among those killed.
A woman and two children were also found alive in the apartment. The children have been handed over to social workers.
Rajala was also unable to confirm whether the woman was the child's mother, and there were no immediate details given of the other relationships involved or the ethnic background of the victims and others.
It is known that the apartment block contains some Finnish Roma families, but there has been no confirmation that this may have been an internal feud between Roma families.

Rajala later told the Finnish Broadcasting Company that two weapons were located in the apartment and that a total of eight persons had been present. Responsibility will now pass to the National Bureau of Investigation, Finland's central criminal police arm.
What is known is that all those involved are in police hands.
Those persons who were earlier evacuated from their homes will be allowed to return as soon as forensic officers have completed their work. They will be offered crisis counselling.

Helsingin Sanomat - International Edition - Home

[Marcus Marulus]

Shooting in Jyväskylä apparently involved internal disputes between Roma people

As we reported and largely covered yesterday - Thursday - a shooting occurred in an apartment block in the Pupuhuhta district of Jyväskylä yesterday morning, leaving three people dead.

Since yesterday, a few new facts have emerged, and it appears that the deaths of the three middle-aged men were a result of internal conflicts between some Finnish Roma people.

According to preliminary information, there were two gunmen in one of the apartments and the number of weapons in use was also two.

After receiving a call about shots being fired just after 8 a.m. yesterday, the local emergency services despatched six police units and emergency vehicles to the address Pieles 2.

Inspector Arto Rajala, who was in charge of the operation, reported that the police surrounded the crime scene and evacuated people from the surrounding apartments.

Based on the information received by Helsingin Sanomat, the police units found two men dead in the stairwell, one of them lying outside the door to the crime scene on the second floor and another on the third floor.

At the same time, the police apprehended two Finnish Roma women with two children in the yard and a third woman in the stairway.

One suspect remained in the apartment, but he did not answer the calls nor the shouts of the officers.

When the police broke in an hour later, the suspect was found dead in the apartment.

Speaking at a press briefing Insp. Rajala stressed that that the police had not been fully aware of how many persons were in the apartment at the time they broke down the door, or whether there would be an armed response to their entry. He admitted it was a calculated risk to storm the apartment.

At the time of the shooting, there were eight people in the apartment, including three men, three women, and two children.

Rajala did not wish to confirm the relationships or the ethnic background of the victims and others involved. The children have been handed over to social workers.

Detective Chief Inspector Raimo Peltovuori from the Central Finland Police Department reported that all adults who survived are in police custody and their participation in the events is currently being determined.

For investigatory reasons, no details are to be disclosed as yet. Not even the fact of whether there was an exchange of fire in the apartment or whether one of the shooters killed himself, the police report.

”More detailed information about the victims’ ages and their places of residence will be given out only after it is certain that the families have been informed of their deaths”, specified Detective Inspector Eila Koivuniemi.

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[Tuco]

I'm curious, how are 'Roma' people in Finland doing? Do they make a lot of trouble, more than other immigrants?