Sello mall shooting
| Sello mall shooting | |
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Emergency vehicles outside Sello after the shooting | |
| Location | Leppävaara, Espoo, Finland |
| Coordinates | 60°13′05″N 024°48′39″E / 60.21806°N 24.81083°E |
| Date | 31 December 2009 c. 10:08 –11:13 (UTC+2) |
| Target | Sello Mall |
Attack type | Spree shooting, murder–suicide, mass shooting |
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| Deaths | 6 (including the perpetrator) |
| Injured | 0 |
| Perpetrator | Ibrahim Shkupolli |
The Sello mall shooting occurred on the morning of 31 December 2009 shortly after 10:08 local time at the Prisma hypermarket in Sello mall, located in the Leppävaara district of Espoo, Finland. Ibrahim Shkupolli, Albanian born in Yugoslavia but had lived in Finland for many years, shot three men and one woman who all worked at Prisma. Before the shooting, he had killed his ex-girlfriend at her home. After the shooting, Shkupolli left the mall and killed himself in his own apartment.
The Sello mall, which opened in 2003, is the largest in the Nordic region with over 170 stores. On the day of the shooting the mall contained between two and three thousand customers. Witnesses described the gunman as calm when walking out of the grocery store in the mall immediately after the shooting.