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.
3 students dead...7 injured some severe...and 1 dead perp
Yep!
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.
One girl died in the arms of a State Trooper...
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
"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.
one of the girls died in the arms of a trooper....tears
Okay, got it now. Thanks.
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.
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.
I'm shaking listening to this press conference.
Thank you for the update. I am at work and my eyes are filling up with tears.
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.
"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.
You and me both...
I am crying and sick to my stomach.....those poor babies..
It's a copy of the Bailey, CO crime. Shotgun and automatic handgun, take hostages, let the boys go . . .
So he took out his revenge on kids that had not even been born at the time it happened.
And his anger involved a little girl, probably? Oh, how very, very tragic!
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