Mass held on New Year''s Eve after gunman kills 5 then self
(1 Jan 2010) SHOTLIST ++NIGHT SHOTS++ 1. Wide of people in Espoo celebrating New Year with fireworks 2. Close up of fireworks exploding in sky 3. Various shots of people in street with fireworks 4. Young people standing outside Espoonlahden Church in Espoo 5. Pan across interior of church with people singing 6. Pastor kneeling beside candles representing the six dead 7. Six candles representing the people who died in the shooting 8. Congregation listening to pastor giving sermon 9. Girl cries and is comforted by friend 10. Wide of congregation 11. Girl cries and wipes tear from face 12. Focus pull to candles representing the six dead 13. SOUNDBITE (English) Micaela Weckman, mourner: "My sister''s best friend died, and his best friend died, in this accident, and I feel very bad." 14. Wide of pastor in church 15. SOUNDBITE (English) Tuula Olli, pastor: "It is a desperate act. It can happen to anyone if you get mentally in that bad a shape. I think it is a tragedy what has happened." 16. Wide of congregation leaving church STORYLINE New Year celebrations in the Finnish city of Espoo were muted on Thursday as the country struggled to come to terms with a mass shooting at a shopping centre, in which six people died. Some residents in Espoo, west of the capital Helsinki, took part in a church service to mourn the dead. Six candles were lit, representing the gunman and his five victims. One of the mourners, 15-year old Micaela Weckman, said her sister''s best friend - and another friend - had died in the shooting. The pastor said it was a tragedy. A lone gunman dressed in black killed five people, four in a crowded shopping mall, before returning home and taking his own life on Thursday. It was the third such massacre in Finland in about two years, and once again raised questions about gun control in a Nordic country where hunting is popular. Police identified the killer as 43-year-old Ibrahim Shkupolli, an ethnic Albanian immigrant from Kosovo who had been living for several years in Finland, and the national tragedy cast a pall over the nation''s New Year''s Eve celebrations. Shkupolli killed his ex-girlfriend, a Finnish woman, at her home, and four employees of the Prisma grocery store at the Sello shopping mall in Espoo, six miles (10 kilometres) west of Helsinki, the capital. It was unclear whom he shot first. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: / ap_archive Facebook: / aparchives Instagram: / apnews You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...