Aarhus University shooting
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Location | Aarhus, Jutland, Denmark |
Coordinates | 56°10′16″N 10°12′45″E / 56.171092°N 10.212406°E |
Date | 5 April 1994 |
Attack type | School shooting, murder-suicide |
Weapons | sawed-off shotgun |
Deaths | 3 (including the perpetrator) |
Injured | 2 |
Perpetrator | Flemming Nielsen |
Motive | Depression (assumed) |
On Tuesday, 5 April 1994, Flemming Nielsen of Silkeborg (age 35) shot four people, all of them female students, two of them fatally, at Aarhus University in Denmark. Nielsen had been a student at the university since 1986. He opened fire with a sawed-off shotgun in a university cafeteria where he killed his first victim, 24-year-old Birgit Bohn Wolfsen. The remaining students in the room managed to escape. Nielsen proceeded into another cafeteria and opened fire again, killing his second victim, 27-year-old Randi Thode Kristensen. Another two people were wounded but survived.[1][2]
Flemming Nielsen then retreated to a basement bathroom stall where he committed suicide via gunshot wound. The autopsy revealed that he had taken Fontex before the incident, and police found a suicide note at his home, stating how he "could not handle life anymore", and that he wanted to kill some people before ending his own life.[1][3][4] It is the only school shooting that has happened in Denmark.[5]
References[]
- ^ a b Peter Bresemann (8 May 2003). "Jeg vil være massemorder" [I want to be a mass-murderer] (in Danish). Ekstra Bladet. Retrieved 25 November 2018.
- ^ Manuel Vigilius (22 September 1999). "Blodig plet i Danmarkshistorien" [Bloody stain on Denmark's History] (in Danish). Kristeligt Dagblad. Archived from the original on 26 November 2018. Retrieved 25 November 2018.
- ^ Fatal shootings at universities worldwide in recent years International Herald Tribune Archived 21 April 2007 at the Wayback Machine(16 April 2007) Archived 21 April 2007 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Afvigerne iblandt os, Fyens Stiftstidende Archived 19 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine (10 May 2007)
- ^ Danielsen, M. (March 2018). Skoleskyderier. Faktalink. Retrieved 1 May 2019.
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