High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The response to the Kauhajoki school shooting, that occurred on 23 September 2008, was widespread. The shooting occurred at a vocational school in Kauhajoki, a city in Western Finland, in which 22-year-old culinary arts student Matti Juhani Saari shot and killed ten people before committing suicide. Eight students had been killed ten months before in the Jokela school shooting in southern Finland.