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.
Anybody can live anywhere, we don't know if the shooter was Amish, or former Amish, or not at all. In fact we only have rumors right now. How many of the old houses have been split into dupluxes and rentals, not to mention he may have simply worked with that community, rather than lived there. No need to jump to conclusions right now. BTW, I used to live a half hour from there.
What is going on in this country the last couple weeks? This is crazy.
What a terrible picture.
"Seriously, Nickle Mines is VERY out in the middle of nowhere. About as rural as Lancaster County gets nowadays."
It must be rural! I was born & raised in the Reading area & I never heard of Nickle Mines until today.
No prob. I didn't even realize you sent me mail. Thanks for the reply - both of them! :)
I've seen the ads outside of Shady Maple farm market -- either Amish looking for someone to taxi them, or people willing to taxi the Amish about.
no jokes please!
News clipping from there said 6 fatalities.
bowie is bi?
I didn't know that, but I grew up with jazz/R&B not rock n roll.
Bowie is Rock right?
I don't know who scares me more, the islamic lunatics or the posters at DU.
That's just not true. I'm Pres and we don't consider ourselves as the least bit insular. Jews live in the world, but are an exclusive community within it. The Amish, of whom I have much respect, are extremely insular. They want it that way and have paid the price genetically. They are wonderful people.
KFI Los Angeles just announced there were six fatalities in the Amish school shooting.
I was very sorry to hear it.
Thanks.
"Has the whole world gone absolutely freakin' crazy?"
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"This is barely the commencement of the beginning of the start of the warm-up coming down the pike."
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I've always believed that the path to a New World Order/One World Govt. would be to create so much confusion and disruption that we would beg for someone to come in and "take over" to straighten things out.
You are correct in saying that this is only the beginning.
I had forgotten the Amish vote. Having lived in PA and met a few Amish, I remember being amazed at how GWB was able to reach these people. I remember thinking that getting the Amish vote had to be a sign from above that GWB was the right man.
OMG how horrible.
My prayers are with the families of those little girls.
Evidently this was in the Religion forum for a while or something, since the Religion Moderator cut a swath through and wiped out discussion of Amish sociology along with the "tasteless" comments. It's a shame, since the question of how the Amish are struggling with the modern world is definitely not only relevant to this, but to our own society's struggles.
Many people fail to realize that there are Amish gangs, drug dealers, etc. Today's event is a horrible tragedy that is only one of many sociological struggles the Amish are facing, and only time will tell us whether it is related or not. I hope the mods can understand that not everyone discussing "Amish gangs," or the like, is being facetious. (...'though such discussion might likely be as irrelevant as the knee-jerk comments against Muslims, Catholics, or whatever flavor of the week is being trashed.)
inre: 518 tis far better to have some chance than to have none at all.
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