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.
I think we can rule out Marilyn Manson and video games.
On 9-11-01 we did. I don't want that to happen again...
Boy is that an understatement.
At 46 I am just about done with a year long adult Catechism that is geared towards 8th graders and boy have I been clueless in a lot of what Jesus has given us to deal with in this world.
It is just by divine intervention that my gut instinct has got me through life. Has to be.
But unique in that they have "out-houses" at the school.
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There you go.
"If it's a copycat, then it just proves that it would not have happened but for the media coverage of the first killings. The guys who do this are just looking for media attention."
I have also wondered if due to media coverage there are copycat killers. Wish the media would not disclose the names of the killers and just call them crazy,scum of the earth, pieces of trash and tell nothing more about them. Just urge prayers and support for the victims and families. Maybe then, the killers wanting media attention will know they are not going to get much. It is just so sad, I am sick about these killings!
Thank You
Agree.
When you know something is crazy, just call it crazy because most likely that is exactly what it is.
I used to agree. But a psychiatric diagnosis can be a cover for clever manipulation, or what this really is: EVIL.
So why wasn't the bombing of a school in Michigan that killed 45 people in 1927 (by a local nutcase upset with high school taxes) the "commencement of the beginning of the start of the warm-up coming down the pike?"
Which is why you will see Amish mainting their front yards with reel mowers and gas-powered weed-whackers - first time I saw that was in Bart Township, where this horrible event occurred.
Aye aye.
Nice theory, but I doubt these wackos are concerned about someone shooting back because they know going in that they will die before its over.
The third "Paradise Twp" in PA is in the Poconos, near Tobyhanna State Park.
The n00b signed up today to make that brilliant remark.
I don't think they have a bright future here.
first of all an immoral outlook - there are no scruples, nothing is taboo. Couple with with a failure to recognize others as human beings, merely props. Add some moral philosophical absurdities: "life is merely a dream, do you even exist, or is all this an illusion" crapola, and you have the recipie for this sort of behavior.
Dear God, please watch over their poor, innocent little souls.
Per CNN.
State Troopers yelled at the gunman "ROY PUT THE GUN DOWN, ROY PUT THE GUN DOWN"
Roy responded by shooting at the State Troopers as he stood outside and the State Troopers returned fire on Ol' Roy.
Took him down. Rough last month for our police officers too.
And if and when some actually ARE Muslim, watch 99.99% of FR throw an apopaleptic fit when the names aren't released and the story isn't covered long-term or in depth.
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