YouTube . One of them showed him firing a pistol at a shooting range . Saari did not directly threaten anyone in the videos , so there were no grounds for further action , national police Commissioner Mikko Paatero told YLE . However , Interior Minister Anne Holmlund suggested the government will investigate how the police handled the case . Watch as the people of Kauhajoki mourn the victims '' `` It 's clear that we have to carefully go through what should have been done and if we could have avoided this situation in some way , '' The Associated Press quoted her as saying . Finnish President Tarja Halonen , speaking from the United Nations ' annual General Assembly in New York , also raised concerns about the YouTube videos . `` We , parents and elderly people , have a little bit of feeling about the Internet , '' she said during an impromptu TV interview . `` It 's like a strange planet for us . But it 's not so . It 's part of our world , so we have to step in . '' However she praised efforts by police , who she
KAUHAJOKI , Finland -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Police in Finland have identified the 10 victims in Tuesday 's college shooting as eight female students , a male student and a male teacher . The bodies of the victims were also badly burned after being set on fire . The gunman -- identified by authorities as Matti Juhani Saari -- also died after turning the gun on himself . In addition , one woman was seriously wounded in the shooting . Finnish police had interviewed and released Saari a day before Tuesday 's bloody rampage at a college in Kauhajoki in southwestern Finland , the country 's interior minister said Tuesday . Finnish broadcaster YLE reported that police found a note at Saari 's apartment saying he planned the attack since 2002 because he hated `` people and the human race , '' according to Jari Neulaniemi of the National Bureau of Investigation . Neulaniemi told YLE that the shooting took place in a single classroom . Nine of the victims were found in the classroom and one in the corridor , the report said . Authorities say they became interested in the 22-year-old student after he posted four videos on