Shooter may have had links with U.S. teen
The teenage outcast who fatally shot eight people and himself in a Tuusula, Finland, high school may have had Internet contacts with a Pennsylvania youth accused of plotting a possible school attack, Finnish police said.
Police said material seized from the computer of Pekka-Eric Auvinen suggests the 18-year-old communicated online with Dillon Cossey, 14, who was arrested in October on suspicion of preparing a possible attack at Plymouth Whitemarsh High School in suburban Philadelphia.
Auvinen killed six students, a nurse and the principal. He then shot himself in the head and died hours later at a hospital.
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