Sanna Sillanpää
Sanna Sillanpää | |
|---|---|
| Born | Sanna Riitta Liisa Sillanpää 15 April 1968 |
| Occupation | IT worker |
| Employer | Fujitsu Finland Oy |
| Criminal status | Upheld on appeal |
| Criminal charge | Manslaughter |
| Penalty | Found legally insane |
| Details | |
| Locations | Albertinkatu, Helsinki |
| Killed | 3 |
| Injured | 1 |
| Weapons | 9mm Beretta 92FS semi-automatic pistol |
Sanna Riitta Liisa Sillanpää (born 15 April 1968) is a Finnish woman who shot three men to death with a rented 9mm Beretta 92FS semi-automatic pistol on 21 February 1999 in a shooting range in Albertinkatu, Helsinki, and wounded another man, who received lifetime injuries. One man present was not harmed. One of the dead was the shooting club's 23-year-old supervisor.
As Sillanpää was leaving the club, she said: "This is what they taught us at the FBI academy, isn't it?". She then traveled from the Helsinki center to the Helsinki-Vantaa Airport in a city bus, carrying a gun and ammunition. At the airport, she was trying to buy a ticket to "somewhere". Sillanpää was caught after four hours as she was boarding an airplane to London. Before boarding the plane she left the gun in a trash can in the airport terminal. It was discovered by a cleaner.