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 was listening to Fox News and the guy speaking for the police clearly said that the shooting did not start until they started their asult. Those were his words.
Okay, I'm going to scream. It said he let the adults leave. How can an adult leave little children alone with a psycho? Am I the only one thinking this? This is such horrible news but I just don't understand how you leave little children with a psycho?! Okay, just upset about the whole thing.
That's perfectly understandable.
Good Lord, what terrible times we live in.
Imagine,10 seconds and then they heard the shooting.
Many prayers for the innocent victims and their families -- and all the children of the school - and all the families hurt by this act of evil.
There is a time and a place for 2nd A activism. Just as we don't want the Brady Bunch vampires to make political hay out of this, we also should refrain here, given this was a rural one-room school with one teacher.
Funny, I heard him say over and over the assault started after they heard shots fired....!
Are you sure they were Amish and not Mennonites ?
WRONG, WRONG, WRONG!!!!
The police at their press conference never said such a thing, so if anyone is reporting anything other than that, it's pure crap.
I feel the same regarding Pandora's box. I could in a way understand the motivations of the killers in Colorado and Wisconsin (CO - sicko pervert, WI - revenge), but this today is way beyond my realm of understanding in any sort of way... How someone could do this to those little girls and to their community - of all people to target...
Lord have mercy on us all...
Good point. Very good point.
Why do you think that? We don't know whether the shooter is a member of this community or not. And what's up with your tagline?
I was misinformed. I looked it up, and you're right. Amish do own guns. However, don't Amish believe you can't kill another human being with guns, even in self defense?
I'd like to send a card as a show of support to that particular Amish community. Anyone know where I could address it to?
Exactly!
But at least I'm always glad when these scumbags kill themselves.
It spares all of us the excruciating long process of booking and trying the !$#$!@#$, in a fruitless game of gutless plea-bargaining leading to paying for them to sit in a nice prison where they can watch TV while working out and learn about the Koran.
Find Stasburg, PA in Lancaster County. Follow Rt 896 to the ESE from Strasburg and you'll see the small town of Georgetown. This happened just north of Georgetown on Mine Rd.
This is as horrific as anything that has ever happened in this country, not in its magnitude, but in the sheer level of evil exhibited.
Exactly. The press conference made clear the sequence of events. They did not storm the building until after he had started shooting. And each time it was repeated, it was exactly the same. I've even got it in Tivo.
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