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Mika
Kalevi MURANEN
Classification: Murderer
Characteristics: Conscript
Number of victims: 3
Date of murders: April 18-19, 1994
Date of arrest:
Next day
Date of birth: 1971
Victims profile: His
neighbours, Reino Vulkko, 53, and his wife
Sirkka Vulkko, 54 / Mailman Matti Olli, 45
Method of murder:
Shooting with a crossbow
/ Shootingwith assault
rifle
Location: Kotka, Finland
Status: Sentenced to life in prison. Paroled in December 2007
Mika Muranen
is a conscript, who in April 1994 returned to the barracks from
a holiday, 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, took a
crossbow with him in addition to the rifle, shot two of his
neighbours with the crossbow and one man with the assault rifle.
He also shot randomly at nearby houses and police officers who
were after him.
The police chased him for a day before wounding
him. After he was arrested he regretted that his military
service would be terminated.
He was
sentenced to life in prison for three murders of first degree
and several attempted murders of first degree.
Mika Kalevi
Muranen (born 1971 in
Kotka, Finland), back in 1994 a conscript,
returned to the barracks in Hamina from a
holiday on Sunday April 17 1994, stole an
assault rifle from the barracks and escaped to
his hometown Kotka.
On the next day, still
dressed in army clothes, he went to the
neighborhood where he lived and shot two of his
neighbours, Reino Vulkko, 53, and his wife
Sirkka Vulkko, 54, with a crossbow he had picked
from his home.
On April 19 Muranen shot
mailman Matti Olli, 45, 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 slightly wounding him. After he was
arrested he regretted that his military service
would be terminated.
Muranen was found to be
mentally stable for the trial. 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, when Mika Muranen
was serving his sentence in a Laukaa labor
prison, he gave an interview for a Finnish crime
magazine Alibi.
