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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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BREAKING ON CNN

THE GUNMAN IN THE AMISH SCHOOL SHOOTING TIED TOGETHER THE FEET OF MOST FEMALE STUDENTS AND ALLOWED BOYS TO LEAVE THE BUILDING BEFORE SHOOTING HIS VICTIMS EXECUTION STYLE, POLICE SAY.

701 posted on 10/02/2006 11:34:09 AM PDT by areafiftyone (Politicians Are Like Diapers - Both Need To Be Changed Often And For The Same Reason)
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To: camle

I wonder how long it took the teacher to locate a phone. It appears these are Amish, Menonites. Amish do typically have phones.


702 posted on 10/02/2006 11:34:09 AM PDT by Woodstock (: > CAP Mom)
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To: AmishDude

Nevermind that "intercourse" is usually interchangeable with "interchange" or "intersection".


703 posted on 10/02/2006 11:34:10 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue.)
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To: wagglebee

So right you are. I believe the Mennonites developed the Weaver curriculum for homeschool use just down the street in Lancaster.


704 posted on 10/02/2006 11:34:42 AM PDT by cinives (On some planets what I do is considered normal.)
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To: Hand em their arse
...I think the trooper giving out the information in this presser is doing quite well, for what he just came away from...

Yes he is. He choked up a couple of times. Who wouldn't. Bodies are still on the scene.
705 posted on 10/02/2006 11:34:45 AM PDT by TomGuy
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To: MineralMan

Thank you for taking the words right out of my mouth.

And what an evil world we live in.


706 posted on 10/02/2006 11:34:55 AM PDT by vrwcagent0498 (Mark Levin and Ann Coulter are my patron saints.)
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To: dirtboy
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.

Yes--he was a monster.

707 posted on 10/02/2006 11:35:01 AM PDT by proud American in Canada (Thy Will Be Done.)
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To: KosmicKitty
My little one is home today - school holiday - just hugged him so tight he complained that he couldn't breath.

I'm catching myself doing that a lot lately, too (and she says the same thing!)... I feel like Pandora's box has been re-opened.

708 posted on 10/02/2006 11:35:04 AM PDT by cgk (I don't see myself as a conservative. I see myself as a religious, right-wing, wacko extremist.)
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To: camle

He entered the School showing a pistol and shotgun - it wasn't until 45 minutes later that he released the boys and some of the teachers - at that time the teacher was able to use a neighbors phone to call police - remember, this is an Amish school, they don't have cell phones, etc.


709 posted on 10/02/2006 11:35:16 AM PDT by LikeLight
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To: jnygrl
An outsider came in. Home invasions happen too, you know.

Yes thats true but there isnt a federal and state law about bringing loaded guns into your house that you homeschool from like there is for schools. gun free school zones ring abell ?

When I homeschool my children believe me they will be protected unlike the slaughterhouses that every school has become since colimbine

710 posted on 10/02/2006 11:35:18 AM PDT by freepatriot32 (Holding you head high & voting Libertarian is better then holding your nose and voting republican)
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To: Strategerist

"They aren't exactly taking 3 showers a day and they work on farms, so the one thing I'll grant is they have a bit of a "European" aroma.
"

Oh, for pete's sake. Anyone who does physical labor has body odor at times. Give it a break, please! Go find another thread to pollute.


711 posted on 10/02/2006 11:35:50 AM PDT by MineralMan (Non-evangelical Atheist)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

sexual 'interchange'...?


712 posted on 10/02/2006 11:35:50 AM PDT by camle (keep your mind open and somebody will fill it full of something for you)
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To: areafiftyone

A 20 year old grudge. What could possibly fester for 20 years before he went nuts?


713 posted on 10/02/2006 11:35:53 AM PDT by ninergold3 (Jesus Loves You - This I Know - For The Bible Tells Me So)
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To: SE Mom

I can't stop the waves of goose flesh on me ...

God have mercy, Christ have mercy, God have mercy.


714 posted on 10/02/2006 11:35:56 AM PDT by La Enchiladita (God bless America, land that I love. NEVER FORGET ... Some Gave All ...)
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To: KosmicKitty

Me too, I'm sitting at my computer and could hear him get crack a number of times... He's doing an incredible job, there has been very little of the "I don't want comment on that at this time" statements... A few, but not many...


715 posted on 10/02/2006 11:36:00 AM PDT by Hand em their arse
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To: La Enchiladita

He was a worthless POS.


716 posted on 10/02/2006 11:36:18 AM PDT by Brilliant
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To: Woodstock

must have been half hour, forty five minutes at least before help arrived. all the more reason to be self sufficient.


717 posted on 10/02/2006 11:36:27 AM PDT by camle (keep your mind open and somebody will fill it full of something for you)
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To: Woodstock
Amish do typically have phones.You were typing too fast, right? The Amish do not have phones, the Mennonites do.
718 posted on 10/02/2006 11:36:37 AM PDT by blu (People, for God's sake, think for yourselves)
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To: camle

Read the story. They were all little girls and there was 1 teachers aide. The teacher's aide was most likely an older/former student helping out. What would you have the children do? Wrestle a semi-automatic weapon from the guy?


719 posted on 10/02/2006 11:36:54 AM PDT by TNdandelion
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To: conservativebabe

" How will these poor people ever recover from this. those poor, poor children. and what the others witnessed. "


I'd be willing to bet that the de rigeur swarm of "grief counsellors" and other ghoulish "helpers" will NOT be welcome in this community....


720 posted on 10/02/2006 11:36:56 AM PDT by Uncle Ike (Stop the "tyranny of the 'offended' " -- say what you mean and stand by it!)
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