Dead Hockey Player Janne Puhakka’s Ex-Boyfriend Says He Killed Him: Report

UPDATE: 10/16/24, 11:25 a.m. ET — The ex-boyfriend of former Finnish hockey participant Janne Puhakka has reportedly confessed to his homicide. 

In response to Finland’s YLE, Rolf Nordmo, 66, instructed police he shot and killed Puhakka, 29, with a looking shotgun on Sunday, October 13 when Puhakka came visiting to the house the couple previously shared for “the association of sensible issues.”

Nordmo mentioned he and Puhakka, the primary brazenly homosexual Finnish hockey participant, broke up a number of weeks in the past. 

A good friend of Puhuakka’s reportedly arrived on the house after not with the ability to contact him. The good friend then known as legislation enforcement upon discovering the scene. 

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Janne Puhakka, Finland’s first brazenly homosexual ice hockey participant, is lifeless after a suspected homicide. He was 29.

Puhakka, who performed for Espoo Blues and Espoo United earlier than ending his profession on the finish of the 2017–2018 season, died within the dwelling he shared together with his Norwegian veterinarian companion, Rolf Nordmo, Finland newspaper Ilta-Sanomat reported on Sunday, October 13.

In response to Finland media, Puhakka’s case is being handled as a homicide with a 65-year-old suspect detained on the scene on suspicion of taking pictures the athlete to demise. Ilta-Sanomat reported that Nordmo, 65, is the suspect, however police haven’t confirmed the suspect’s identification.

Detective Inspector Matti Högman instructed information company STT there was “cause to imagine the suspect’s actions had been deliberate and merciless” and the “suspect and sufferer knew one another.”

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Quickly after Puhakka’s demise was confirmed, Finland’s former Prime Minister Sanna Marin took to Instagram to share a picture of the previous ice hockey participant with a damaged love coronary heart emoji.

“We ship our honest condolences to his household, his kinfolk and all his former teammates,” the Rapaces de Hole hockey staff mentioned in an announcement through Instagram on Monday, October 14. “Presenting within the staff throughout the 2017/2018 season, Janne marked the employees and his teammates together with his kindness and staff spirit.”

Along with writing a memoir about his life, Pahakka opened up about his relationship with Nordmo throughout a current candid interview.

In response to the athlete, he initially selected to not disclose his sexual identification and relationship to his household, pals or teammates.

“I used to be frightened, and I didn’t need individuals to find out about my sexuality,” Puhakka instructed South West Information Service in 2022. “I used to be afraid of the way in which I’d be perceived within the ultra-masculine sporting world.”

Puhakka later got here out to his household and shared that his boyfriend was 37 years older. He confirmed his kinfolk took the information effectively.

“We discover all of the feedback fairly humorous, and as soon as individuals begin speaking and get to know us they’re typically so heat and accepting,” Nordmo beforehand shared about individuals’s first reactions to their romance. “I typically say Janne is an previous soul in a younger physique and I’m a younger soul in an previous physique.”

When requested in the event that they plan on having kids, Nordmo mentioned they had been centered on having fun with the current.

“It’s essential to be completely satisfied now, and I don’t see the purpose in dwelling on the longer term,” he mentioned. “Who is aware of what’s across the nook?”