Kosovo Albanian on New Year's Eve killing rampage in Finland
Kosovo Albanian Ibrahim Shkupolli (see picture from Kosovska Mitrovica) has killed five people in a Finnish town, before shooting himself on New Year's Eve.
(KosovoCompromise Staff) Saturday, January 02, 2010
The 43-year-old Shkupolli, an ethnic Albanian immigrant from Kosovo, apparently chose his victims and did not fire at random, police said.
Chief investigator Esa Gronlund of the National Bureau of Investigation told reporters on Friday that a preliminary investigation has indicated that Ibrahim Shkupolli's method of shooting the five Finns, most of them at a shopping mall in the town of Espoo, suggest that he had planned Thursday's slayings, though the investigator declined to provide details.
Investigator Henrik Niklander said police are examining the relationship between Shkupolli and the people he gunned down in Espoo, which is a few kilometres outside the Finnish capital, Helsinki.
"The fact all victims were employees of the (same) Prisma store seems to indicate that we're not dealing with a coincidence," Niklander said.
Four of those slain -- three men and one woman -- were working in the Prisma grocery store when they were shot. The fifth victim -- Shkupolli's former girlfriend -- had been an employee at the same store, though she was found dead in a nearby apartment. She had previously won a restraining order against Shkupolli.
