Posted on 10/02/2006 9:16:45 AM PDT by DCBryan1
Edited on 10/02/2006 12:55:46 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Developing....
School Shooting injures one person,
Hostage situation may be developing.
Update: Multiple Shooting Victims and Possible Hostages in Lancaster County
Not many details available yet, but an incident has been reported from Mine Rd. in Bart Township in Lancaster County involving multiple gunshot victims. Dennis Buterbaugh reports live from our newsroom. abc27 has a news crew on the way. We will update with details as they become available.
Update 2: Pennsylvania Police: Amish School is 'Horrendous Crime Scene' After Shooting
NICKEL MINES, Pa. — At least two female students and one slightly older female — who may have been a teacher's aide — were shot and killed execution style in what police say may be a revenge killing for something that happened 20 years ago.
State Police Commissioner Jeffrey Miller said Monday that truck driver Charles Carl Roberts IV entered the one-room Amish schoolhouse in earlier in the day. The gunman brought in pieces of wood to board up the doors to the building when he entered the school. He also stacked desks against the building's doors.
"It appears that the suspect entered school with the intention of taking hostages," Miller said.
Roberts had wire ties and plastic flex cuff, which he used to begin tying the hostages feet together after they were lined up along a blackboard. He let go 15 male students, as well as one adult female who was pregnant. Three other non-student females with infants were also allowed to leave. One shotgun and one handgun was found next to the suspect when police entered the building.
"It seems as though he wanted to attack young, female victims," Miller said.
After a half hour inside, Roberts began shooting. When the gunfire stopped, three females were found shot dead at the scene, along with the suspect, who shot himself, Miller said. At least seven more victims — some critically wounded — were transported to nearby hospitals, he said. One victim, a young girl, died in the arms of a trooper, Miller said. He could not confirm how many people died en route or at the hospital. The county coroner earlier reported six children killed but then backed off of that statement.
Soem schools do have armed guards or police officers.
I just called the owner at Thomasville County Auctions,
http://www.thomasvillecountryauction.com/directions.htm
and he said that's Paradise Twp, too. Can there be more than one twp in a state with the same name?
Flummoxed...
Also, he said the shooter was an older man....(the man giving this information owns a buggy company / the Amish are customers/ and he has lived here 25 years.)
The "reported rates" are a different matter ~ I have a problem with the Apostolic Charismatic Church of the First Born because they don't use doctors (except to set broken bones); some, but not all, Plain Church people can have a similar problem. Even worse, some of the First Born actually live in Amish communities, dress like the Amish, live like the Amish, but keep their own separate customs ~ very strange bunch.
They also don't have the pacifist standards of the Amish.
don't the Israeli's arm thier teachers?
Yes, I think it's still in committee but will be coming up for a vote, all too soon.
You're a Freeper, that instantly qualifies you as smart enough to homeschool.
Homeschooling depends more upon commitment than brains. There is an infinite amount of resources for a set of committed parents.
We've been spoiled by the internet in getting our news on the latest events.
I was just watching that video on YouTube last week.
The shooter was among the dead, state police Cpl. Ralph Striebig said.
“There are also a number of wounded,” he added.
Three girls, all critical with gunshot wounds, were admitted to Lancaster General Hospital, spokesman John Lines told NBC affiliate WGAL-TV.
WGAL-TV also reported that the shooter was an adult male who had entered the school in rural Lancaster County and and started making threats.
Some people in the Amish community learned about the situation and contacted police, WGAL reported.
Negotiations apparently then took place but at some point at least 10 shots were fired within the school, WGAL said. It appeared the shooter took his own life.
Two hours later, about three dozen people in traditional Amish clothing, hats and bonnets stood near the small school building speaking to one another, several young people and authorities.
At least two ambulances had left the scene, and at least one person was taken on a stretcher to a medical helicopter.
Twenty-seven students are said to have attended the private school, which teaches first through eighth grades.
the problem with uniformed security is that it merely tells the shooters who to shoot first.
Those poor children.
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"Officials said the hostage taker is deceased."
Ok, is this Night of the Living Dead?
One of the weird ideas people get is that they think the Amish actually believe that technologies they don't use are "evil" - like you're going to Hell if you watch 15 minutes of TV...
It's really just that the choose not to use technologies that they feel do not help them live closer to God.
"Wish the Fox News guy would quit repeatedly mispronouncing Lancaster"
Just curious......why does it matter so very, very much to Pennsylvanians how Lancaster is pronounced? Sorry, but this is about the 5th time I've heard someone correcting another on how to say Lancaster, and I live far, far away. For those of us who don't live anywhere near Lancaster, how the heck are we supposed to know how to pronounce it?
Most states don't.
Given the limited amount of and high price of land in Pennsylvania, many younger Amish have found Indiana to be, as it were, "Paradise", and have been relocating to farming areas throughout the state for the last 30 years.
You can find them everywhere there these days.
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