George Edelmann

George Edelmann was a Finn who killed 11 people and wounded 10 others in and around an office building in Mariehamn, Finland, on October 2, 1970, before being arrested.

Murders
At about 4 o clock, 30 year old Edelmann entered the office building he was fired from, armed with a semi automatic rifle from the Soviet Union. He first fired several shots around the first floor, but did not hit anyone. He then ran up the stairs to the second floor, shooting three security guards who attempted to stop him. Guard was shot in the head and died instantly, another was critically wounded by a shot to the chest and died later on, and another was wounded in the arm. Edelmann then fired several rounds through the doors of the second floor, before running up to the third floor, where he seriously wounded one with a shot to the chest and another with a shot to the shoulder. He then reloaded his gun and shot him two more times in the back. He later died of his injuries. Afterwards Edelmann climbed onto the roof of the building and fired at a shipyard about 500 meters away, killing a worker named J. F. with a shot to the head. He then climbed down from the building and went to the house of a worker who was on leave that day. At the house he found him sitting with his two youngest children at the steps leading inside. Edelmann drew a hunting knife and first stabbed to death him and his five year old daughter, before cutting off the head of his two year old son. He then entered the main room of the house, where he continued to attack the man's relatives, as well as another family, who had been spending the day over at Tove's house. He first wounded the oldest son and two daughters, before killing an elderly woman from the other family by stabbing her seven times when she tried to intervene, and then stabbed the man's brother in law in the shoulder. After killing or injuring all of the family family he turned his attention to the other family, first wounding a 13 year old girl and her grandmother before attacking four more elderly women, killing one of them instantly, and fatally wounding another. Finally he killed a seven yeat old by cutting her throat, and left the house. He returned to his own home, and when police gathered around the building he handed his 19 year old brother his weapons and surrendered.