Multiple deaths in one room Amish school shooting

[Woodmonkey]

Cops: 'Number' of People Killed in Pennsylvania School Shooting

NICKEL MINES, Pa. — A "number" of people were killed in a shooting at a one-room Amish schoolhouse in Lancaster County Monday, Pennsylvania state police said.

"There are a number of people dead. ... The exact number I do not know yet," state police Cpl. Ralph Striebig said.

The police told FOX News that it was in fact a hostage situation and that the shooter is now killed. There were at least 12 people injured, along with the deaths, police said. Not motive is yet known.

There is a news conference scheduled at the school sometime before 1 p.m. ET.

The school is in Paradise Township on Mine Road, in Bart — an Amish community within the township. There are a total of 27 students in Wolf Rock School, where the shooting took place.

The Lancaster County 911 Web site reported that dozens of emergency units were dispatched to a "medical emergency" at 10:45 a.m. Monday.

About three-dozen Amish people congregated near the scene. Television news helicopters also showed a person being taken away on a stretcher to a waiting medical helicopter.

Officials at the Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center confirmed that victims were being admitted there. A spokeswoman said the hospital anticipated treating more than one patient, but did not know how many.

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[Snowden]

This may be later news; I can't tell:

Coroner: 6 Dead in Amish School Shooting

Location of shooting at an Amish school in Nickel Mines, Pa., on Oct. 2, 2006. (AP Graphic)



Monday, October 2, 2006

NICKEL MINES, Pa. - A gunman killed six people at a one-room Amish schoolhouse Monday morning in Pennsylvania's bucolic Lancaster County, and several others were taken to hospitals with injuries, authorities said.
"So far, six confirmed dead, and the helicopters are pulling into (Lancaster General Hospital) like crazy," Coroner G. Gary Kirchner said.

It was unclear if the shooter was among the six. State Police Cpl. Ralph Striebig said earlier that the shooter was dead.

Three girls, all in critical condition with gunshot wounds, were admitted to Lancaster General Hospital, spokesman John Lines told WGAL-TV. Officials at the Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center confirmed that victims also were being admitted there. A spokeswoman said the hospital anticipated more than one patient.

Police surrounded the one-room school in southeast Lancaster County late Monday morning, and the Lancaster County 911 Web site reported that dozens of emergency units were dispatched to a "medical emergency" at 10:45 a.m.

Three dozen people in traditional Amish clothing, broad-brimmed hats and bonnets stood near the small school building, surrounded by a low white fence, speaking to one another and authorities. Others gathered with a group of children at a nearby farm while investigators stretched out in a line across a field searching for evidence.

The school is situated among farmlands just outside Nickel Mines, a tiny village about 55 miles west of Philadelphia.

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[Woodmonkey]

This person lined up the females (ages 6 to 16), bound some and then executed them!

[EdNigma]

Why is THIS not called an act of 'terror'? Maybe because they guys name is mohammad? 100 bucks says that "Charles Carl Roberts IV" is not his real name. AMISH for Pete's sake!! It's like, assaulting Canada, both try the 'live an let live' approach. Please note the methodical way he tied, and executed this 6-13 year old, GIRLS!! Tied and bound GIRLS!!!

NICKEL MINES, Pa. - A 32-year-old milk truck driver took about a dozen girls hostage in a one-room Amish schoolhouse Monday, barricaded the doors with boards and killed at least three girls and apparently himself, authorities said.

It was the nation's third deadly school shooting in less than a week, and similar to an attack just days earlier at a school in Colorado.
The gunman, identified as Charles Carl Roberts IV, was inside for over half an hour and had barred the doors with 2x4s with the girls inside, State Police Commissioner Jeffrey B. Miller said. By the time officers broke windows to get in, three girls and the gunman were dead, Miller said. Seven others were taken to hospitals, three in critical condition.
"It appears that when he began shooting these victims, the victims were shot execution style in the head," Miller said.
Roberts had walked into the one-room West Nickel Mines Amish School with a shotgun and handgun, then released about 15 boys, a pregnant woman and three other women with infants before barring the doors with the girls inside, Miller said.
The girls were lined up along a blackboard, Miller said. "He had wire ties with him and flex ties, and he began to tie the girls' feet together," Miller said.
A teacher was able to call police around 10:30 a.m. and reported that a gunman was holding students hostage.
About 11 a.m., Roberts apparently called his wife from a cell phone, saying he was "acting out in revenge for something that happened 20 years ago," Miller said. "It seems as though he wanted to attack young, female victims."

ppffsstt... Let it go man, let it go. It's the Amish, how bad could it have been?

Moments later, Roberts told a dispatcher he would open fire on the children if police didn't back away from the building. Troopers heard gunfire in the building seconds later.
The school has about 25 to 30 students in all, ages 6 to 13.
"It seems as though he wanted to attack young, female victims," Miller said. He released no further details about that what the grudge Roberts mentioned could have involved.
Lancaster County Coroner G. Gary Kirchner initially said six people were killed, but later said he wasn't certain about that number.
At least seven people were taken to hospitals, including at least three girls, ages 6-12, who were admitted to Lancaster General Hospital in critical condition with gunshot wounds, spokesman John Lines said.
The small school, surrounded by a white board fence, sits among farmlands just outside Nickel Mines, a tiny village about 55 miles west of Philadelphia.
Hours after the attack, about three dozen people in traditional Amish clothing, broad-brimmed hats and bonnets stood near the small schoolhouse as investigators walked in a line through fields searching for evidence.
The shootings were disturbingly similar to an attack last week at Platte Canyon High School in Bailey, Colo., where a man took several girls hostage in a school classroom and then killed one of them and himself. Authorities said the man sexually molested the girls.
"If this is some kind of a copycat, it's horrible and of concern to everybody, all law enforcement," said Monte Gore, undersheriff of Park County, Colo.
"On behalf of Park County and our citizens and our sheriff's office, our hearts go out to that school and the community," he said.
Nationwide, the 1999 Columbine High School massacre in Littleton, Colo., remains the deadliest school shooting, claiming the lives of 15 people, including the two teenage gunmen. On Friday, a school principal was gunned down in Cazenovia, Wis. A 15-year-old student, described as upset over a reprimand, was charged with murder in the killing.

-edit- whoops, double posted this. sorry WM, we seem to be on the same 'wave' today. LOL!

[Woodmonkey]

NP Ed

[Snowden]

Violence of the modern world assails pacifist Paradise

The journalist Bob Kemper began his reporting career in Lancaster County. Here he explains how the Amish cope with the encroachment of 21st-century America

YESTERDAY’S killings were an extraordinary and horrific clash of cultures in a part of the United States where tens of thousands of people cling to a 19th century way of life in a 21st century world.
Despite the frequent occurrences of deadly school shootings in America, nothing could have been more alien to the Amish — or Pennsylvania Dutch as they are often called — who eschew not only all things modern but all things military, including guns.

Amish women, who sew the family’s entire wardrobe, always in black with more colourful matching pastel shirts and blouses, never use anything shiny, such as a zipper or a metal button, specifically because those things are so common on military uniforms. And the men, from the day of their marriage, grow a beard but not a moustache, because having both would too closely mirror generals of the past who they regard as tyrannical.

NI_MPU('middle');Guns may not be unknown in the homes of more liberal sects in Lancaster County — some Mennonites, for example, drive black cars stripped of their chrome instead of riding in carriages — but the sight of an Amish man at a National Rifle Association meeting would be ludicrous. Their faith preaches strict adherence to peace and against murder.

While surrounded by farm fields that appear to sprout new subdivisions almost overnight, the Amish of Pennsylvania have tried to remain largely isolated from such rapid change. The steel wheels of their horse-drawn carriages move more easily on the new asphalt than on the rough dirt roads leading into their farms, but modernity has provided few other advantages in their eyes.
The Amish, and conservative sects of Mennonites who live beside them, are a such a common sight in Lancaster County that, despite their objections, they have become walking, talking tourist attractions for visitors who arrive by the busload and who insist on taking a photograph of an authentic Amish man, despite the Amish’s belief that photographs are graven images that steal their souls.

Tourists insist on calling the Amish the Pennsylvania Dutch, though the roots of the Amish extend from Germany, not the Netherlands.