We study collisions of massive pointlike particles in three dimensionalanti-de Sitter space, generalizing the work on massless particles in [1]. Weshow how to construct exact solutions corresponding to the formation of eithera black hole or a conical singularity from the collision of an arbitrary numberof massive particles that fall in radially and collide at the origin of AdS. Norestrictions on the masses or the angular and radial positions from where theparticles are released, are imposed. We also consider the limit of an infinitenumber of particles, obtaining novel timelike thin shell spacetimes. These thinshells have an arbitrary mass distribution as well as a non-trivial embeddingwhere the radial location of the shell depends on the angular coordinate, andwe analyze these shells using the junction formalism of general relativity. Wealso consider the massless limit and find consistency with earlier results, aswell as comment on the stress-energy tensor modes of the dual CFT.