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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Un blanking believable.
Brave to go over there and read.
Feel like you need a shower like the scrub downs one gets at a radiation leak?
"We also have a town called 'Intercourse'! LOL"
Look up "intercourse." It just means some sort of interaction, generally business. Unless you put the word "sexual" in front of it, it's a perfectly ordinary word.
I guess you always put the word "sexual" in front of it, even if it's not there. Sixth-graders laugh at that word.
Look up the definitin of the word insular - "characteristic of an isolated people"
Your post is a contradiction. If you live in the world, you are not insular in the same sense as are the Amish.
Understand now ?
monsters walk amongst us...
I've visited there often. The children that were in the small schoolhouse would be of the stricter Amish. They have released the info on the shooter. He lived close to the community. The press conference is on. The notes he left said it was due to something that happened many years ago. They are not saying whether he was of this stricter community once. He drove milk delivery truck and apparently had interaction with farmers.
One child died in the arms of a trooper.
Or the police and their families. I feel sorry for all of them.
IMO, people need to re-think "crazy."
This is evil. People are being possessed by evil ... way beyond "crazy."
It's been a long time since I've seen a press conference that gives out this much information this fast.
Hi! Long time no see. Unfortunately, because of something as tragic as this. How will these poor people ever recover from this. those poor, poor children. and what the others witnessed.
I'm absolutely ill.
Good observation - maybe the Bailey shooting triggered something in this idiot's diseased brain to act on his hatred of girls. That makes some kind of sick sense.
I know, just reading the current posts here and I'm tearing up. So, so very sad. Why would anyone want to harm these children? Just Damm!
Oh no... I have to take a break from this thread because I'm starting to cry at work.
Cops had to break through windows - perp had boarded shut the doors and piled desks...
yep - that came right from CNN - I posted it -
hi kiddo.....
Poor innocent children! Their lives are forever changed.
Of course now the Amish will be put uder the microscope and a way will be found in the MSM to blame them for the incident.
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