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.
Thank you again.
It was revenge for something that happened 20 years ago. So if he is 32 (or 34?), presumeably he would have been 12.
My mistake.
Roy was 32 yrs old.
If the post is true, it sounds like the shooter doesn't have respect for anything, including human life.
I was in general referring to physicist's remarks in his context, ie insularity causes hatred.
Turns out that this turd was a truck driver from outside the Amish comminity. My Family has roots the go back to Lancaster Cty, PA
He left suicide notes in his own home
PSP Spokesman's voice was cracking as he described this horrific execution...
The perp apparently had a 20-year grudge against little girls...
Just stunningly horrific...
drove a milk tanker truck
Read "The Martyr's Mirror"
The "reformed/lutherans", as well as the Catholics, used to torture, burn-alive and drown the Anabaptists for heresy back in Europe, right into the late 1600s.
Some memories appear to be genetic.
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It sounds like whether he was Amish or not may have little or nothing to do with anything. He was obviously mentally unstable.
And brings out new signups, too.
You are right. He was a truck driver that lived close to the community. Milk delivery truck.
Puh-leeze Louise! What would be the reason for so much "confusion and disruption" over the past 2000 years? Murders, even multiple murders have been committed for centuries. Was the N.W.O/O.W.G. involved with all of them?
I doubt it just as much as I doubt they were involved in this.
Crazy people have been with us forever and crazy people have done this kind of thing forever - WITHOUT any prompting from Queen Beatrice or Henry Kissinger, or whoever it is supposedly running the New World Order.
Milk truck driver according to Police.
Thanks so much, CT.
Well, more accurately, we should be VERY careful about rumors.
No, it's in Lancaster.
I lived in that zip code until I was 13.
My FIL is Buddy and my dh is Bill.
I can't imagine how terrified those little girls must have been.
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