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School Shooting:Multiple Deaths in Lancaster, PA Amish School, Shooter Kills Self
Fox News Alert ^ | 02 OCT 06

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.

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To: mystery-ak

3 students dead...7 injured some severe...and 1 dead perp


601 posted on 10/02/2006 11:19:59 AM PDT by mystery-ak (My Son, My Soldier, My Hero........God Speed Jonathan......)
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To: Religion Moderator; Gondring
We are watching closely.

Yep!

602 posted on 10/02/2006 11:20:13 AM PDT by Admin Moderator
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To: La Enchiladita

He left suicide notes for his wife and kids. Took his kids to the bus stop and went to the Amish school....
Wife found the notes and called him.


603 posted on 10/02/2006 11:20:15 AM PDT by LA Woman3
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To: mystery-ak

One girl died in the arms of a State Trooper...


604 posted on 10/02/2006 11:20:42 AM PDT by LikeLight
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To: Michael Goldsberry

I famialiar with that verse. Sruck me as an odd way to put it for a first time poster considering the nature of the thread


605 posted on 10/02/2006 11:20:44 AM PDT by Horatio Gates (Thats right ...I do have a black belt in karaoke)
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To: cripplecreek

"It takes a real piece of garbage to go on a shooting spree in an Amish school"

As opposed to what? Some other school? I'm afraid I consider someone who would shoot up any school to be a piece of garbage, and that's putting it mildly.


606 posted on 10/02/2006 11:20:47 AM PDT by MineralMan (Non-evangelical Atheist)
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To: LA Woman3

one of the girls died in the arms of a trooper....tears


607 posted on 10/02/2006 11:20:51 AM PDT by mystery-ak (My Son, My Soldier, My Hero........God Speed Jonathan......)
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To: Velveeta

Okay, got it now. Thanks.


608 posted on 10/02/2006 11:20:54 AM PDT by La Enchiladita (God bless America, land that I love. NEVER FORGET ... Some Gave All ...)
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To: radiohead
It's easy to think of the Amish as being "Apart from the world" but I have found them to be incredibly well informed citizens.

I recall visiting an Amish shop about ten years ago during the Lewinski years, and someone mentioned the name of the president, and all the Amish including the kids started snickering as if it were a punchline from a dirty joke.

In retrospect they were correct.

609 posted on 10/02/2006 11:20:57 AM PDT by joshhiggins (O you who believe! do not take the MUSLIMS for friends)
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To: Blue Jays

Wayne LaPierre noted this several years ago that the gungrabbers are always __________

If Wayne said this, then I can safely say that he is a major league idiot.

I've known many a gun grabber living here in the state of MD, and no one, not one person ever, has been "comfortable and genuinely pleased with a bit of bloodshed". It's the typical hyperbole of a fund raiser.


610 posted on 10/02/2006 11:21:04 AM PDT by dmz
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To: mystery-ak

I'm shaking listening to this press conference.


611 posted on 10/02/2006 11:21:23 AM PDT by tiredoflaundry ( The kinder we are to terrorists, the harsher we are to their potential victims.)
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To: La Enchiladita
Tied female children's feet together ... let boys leave ... let pregnant female (aide) leave ... one released female dialed 911.

Thank you for the update. I am at work and my eyes are filling up with tears.

612 posted on 10/02/2006 11:21:34 AM PDT by proud American in Canada (Thy Will Be Done.)
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To: LikeLight
That's stunning - that something like that could crawl into his brain and he would allow it to eat him up to the point of an act of absolute senseless depravity.

Truly a sad and tragic day. Those little girls had NOTHING to do with what happened to him back then, but he takes it out on them. I hope he gets his own private pit in hell, extra hot.

613 posted on 10/02/2006 11:21:35 AM PDT by dirtboy (Good fences make good neighbors)
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To: sageb1

"It sounds like whether he was Amish or not may have little or nothing to do with anything. He was obviously mentally unstable."

Or just evil!
Mental illness doesn't make you a killer, but bad people don't give a crap about life.


614 posted on 10/02/2006 11:21:41 AM PDT by GottaLuvAkitas1 (Ronald Reagan is the TRUE "Father Of Our Country".)
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To: tiredoflaundry

You and me both...


615 posted on 10/02/2006 11:21:42 AM PDT by LikeLight
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To: tiredoflaundry

I am crying and sick to my stomach.....those poor babies..


616 posted on 10/02/2006 11:22:00 AM PDT by mystery-ak (My Son, My Soldier, My Hero........God Speed Jonathan......)
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To: fatima

It's a copy of the Bailey, CO crime. Shotgun and automatic handgun, take hostages, let the boys go . . .


617 posted on 10/02/2006 11:22:04 AM PDT by La Enchiladita (God bless America, land that I love. NEVER FORGET ... Some Gave All ...)
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To: Velveeta
In revenge for something that happened 20 years ago.

So he took out his revenge on kids that had not even been born at the time it happened.

618 posted on 10/02/2006 11:22:16 AM PDT by knuthom
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To: A Citizen Reporter
presumeably he would have been 12.

And his anger involved a little girl, probably? Oh, how very, very tragic!

619 posted on 10/02/2006 11:22:27 AM PDT by twigs
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To: LikeLight
The perp apparently had a 20-year grudge against little girls... Just stunningly horrific...


It's as if there are demons out there trying to outdo one another in horrific acts of evil.
620 posted on 10/02/2006 11:22:28 AM PDT by Deo volente
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