Mika Muranen

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Mika Kalevi Muranen (born 1971 in Kotka, Finland), back in 1994 a conscript, returned to the barracks in Hamina from a holiday on April 1994, stole an assault rifle from the barracks and escaped to his hometown Kotka.

Dressed in army clothes, he went to the neighborhood where he lived and shot two of his neighbours, Reino Vulkko and his wife Sirkka Vulkko, with a crossbow.

After this he shot mailman Matti Olli with the assault rifle. He also shot randomly at nearby houses. After this he escaped to the nearby forest with his dog. During the chase, police shot the dog with a submachine gun. Muranen shot many times at police officers who were after him with an assault rifle.

The police chased him for a day before wounding him. After he was arrested he regretted that his military service would be terminated.

Muranen was diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder. Kotka district court sentenced him to life in prison for three murders, eight attempted murders and three attempted manslaughters. He started serving his sentence in Mikkeli state prison.

The same year there was a similar case in Sweden, when Fänrik Mattias Flink shot seven people with an Ak 5.

In 2006, Muranen gave an interview for a Finnish crime magazine Alibi. According to the paper, he is now serving his sentence in a labor prison in Laukaa and he has a daughter.