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This Looks Bad... Really Really Bad...
Police have responded to reports of a hostage situation and multiple people shot in eastern Lancaster County at a small, one-room Amish schoolhouse.
The scene is along the 4800 block of Mine Road in Bart Township. Witnesses told News 8 reporter Anne Shannon that a man went into school and took hostages. Some people in the Amish community learned about the situation and contacted police. Witnesses told Shannon that this is a tragedy not ever seen before in Lancaster County.
Shannon also said that the hostage situation is over. Officials said the hostage taker is deceased.
"This is definitely an enormous scene," Shannon said.
Lancaster General Hospital has called in all available personnel. They have been told to be prepared for a large number of patients.
John Lines of Lancaster General Hospital said so far they have received three "pediatric" patients. He did not say what their injuries were.
Hershey Medical Center in Dauphin County has also been warned that they might be receiving patients.
News 8 is stressing that the situation does not involve the Faith Mennonite School or Bart-Colerain Elementary, which are near the scene.
Last edited by mcornelio; 10-02-2006 at 11:49 AM.
This Looks Bad... Really Really Bad...
WTF is wrong with people nowadays. How many school shootings has this been the last couple weeks? 2 or 3.
They got the shooter.
BREAKING NEWS
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Updated: less than 1 minute ago
NICKEL MINES, Pa. - A gunman killed “a number” of people at a one-room Amish schoolhouse Monday in Pennsylvania’s Lancaster County, state police said.
The shooter was among the dead, state police Cpl. Ralph Striebig said.
“There are a number of people dead,” Striebig said. “The exact number I do not know yet.”
State police later said it's possible that five people died.
About three dozen Amish people earlier were standing behind a police line, and at least two ambulances had left the scene, WGAL-TV said. Television news helicopters showed a person being taken away on a stretcher to a waiting medical helicopter.
The Lancaster County 911 Web site reported that dozens of emergency units were dispatched to a “medical emergency” at 10:45 a.m. Monday.
This report will be updated as information becomes available.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
This Is Getting Out Of Hand...
Reuters reports 7 killed, but exact number unknown.
http://today.reuters.com/news/articl...HOOL-AMISH.xml
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Several people were shot and killed by a gunman who attacked an Amish school in Pennsylvania on Monday and was then either captured or killed, police said.
"There are a number dead. The exact number I am not sure at this point. There are also a number of wounded. And the shooter is not at large," said state police Corporal Ralph Striebig.
Do amish people use hospitals... arent they against anything technological
. I thought this was just an Onion article in bad taste when I saw the le.
sad
thats what it sounds like... police surround 1 room amish schoolhouse...
WTF!?!? you think 1st time dui offendors should get 20 years in prison??? what the does the death penalty in China for smuggling drugs have to do with this?
From what I heard on the news the Amish don't "conform" and that's why they live the way we see them. They however, do use hospitals, electricity, and phones. I mean, three people have been taken to the hospital (well that was thirty minutes ago). They go into more metro areas to sell their products and to make a living. We're just stereotyping if we assume those things. But what I am most worried about is everyone's mental health after, and during, this whole event.
I should have been more clear... when needed.
i had a line from Kingpin that i was gonna type... but n/m.
Wow, that is really deep! Looks like you have it all figured out. Will you please save us from ourselves?
Truck driver kills three girls in Amish school shooting POSTED: 2:36 p.m. EDT, October 2, 2006
var clickExpire = "-1"; PARADISE, Pennsylvania (CNN) -- A man apparently targeting young girls walked into a one-room Amish schoolhouse and shot three students to death before killing himself, police said Monday. Seven others were wounded in the attack.
"It seems as though he wanted to attack young female victims, and this is close to his residence, that's the only reason we can figure that he went to the school," said Comm. Jeffrey Miller, Pennsylvania State Police.
The shooting took place at Wolf Rock School in Paradise, a school run by the Amish community with about 27 students in grades 1 through 8.
The gunman, Charles Carl Roberts IV, 32, was a truck driver, said Miller.
At least five young girls with gunshot wounds were taken to area hospitals, a spokeswoman said.
Gunman let boys go
Miller said that during the attack, Roberts apparently told students to line up in front of the blackboard. He began to tie his female captives' feet together. Then he let the boys in the classroom leave.
Miller said Roberts also allowed an adult female who was pregnant to leave and three other adult females who had infant children with them.
At the time he let them leave, the teacher was able to get out of the schoolhouse and alert authorities, Miller said. (Watch police investigate shooting scene -- 1:00)
Miller said Roberts called his wife while he was inside the school. She said he didn't know where he was but that he couldn't go on any more and he was getting revenge for something that happened 20 years ago. (Watch aftermath of deadly school shooting -- 2:00)
Lancaster General Hospital initially received three young patients, ages 6 to 15 -- one in critical condition -- and expects to receive three more patients soon, spokeswoman Kim Hatch told CNN.
Two were transferred to Hershey Medical Center and another to Children's Hospital in Philadelphia, while the fourth remains at Lancaster General, she said.
Another young female suffering from a gunshot wound to the head and right hand was taken to Reading Hospital and Medical Center, where she was in critical condition before she was transferred to Children's Hospital, a hospital spokeswoman said.
Lancaster County's 911 Web site reported dozens of emergency vehicles -- including at least nine ambulances -- were dispatched to Bart Township shortly before 11 a.m. for a "medical emergency." The Lancaster County emergency communications Web site showed 20 incident calls listed to the normally quiet Bart Township at 10:48 a.m.
Shortly after the attack, men, women and girls in traditional Amish clothing gathered in small groups outside the country schoolhouse along a dirt road. Horse-drawn carriages could be seen in a nearby parking lot.
The attack was the nation's third deadly school shooting in a week.
On Wednesday, a 53-year-old man entered a high school in Bailey, Colorado, where he held several female students hostage at gunpoint. He shot one girl before killing himself seconds after a SWAT team stormed inside the classroom.
A high school student near Madison, Wisconsin, is suspected of fatally gunning down his principal on Friday, after he was disciplined for carrying tobacco and being bullied.
Copyright 2006 CNN. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Associated Press contributed to this report.
On ABC they said apparently he left a note to his wife and indicated he was doing it for revenge for something happened a long time ago (like 20 years ago)...?????? It was some guy that hauled milk from a dairy farm or something like that.
That's f****ed up!!!
si wtf was it that happened? he got raped buy an amish chick?... i was going to make a joke but this isnt right... dude goes killing little inocent girls ing son of a ...
Unstable mind to say the least.
This is literally about 3 miles from my house. I have never met an inconsiderate Amish person. They've all been very kind to me.
Barbaric! Death was too good for this guy.
wow... something is terribly wrong with these people. Killing 3 girls ages 6 - 13, the dude couldn't have been sane. Insanity seems to be running rampant in the US now a days
I'm not so sure about that.
he tied thier feet together, lined them up against the blackboard and shot them execution style.
You wonder if these guys are feeding off one another.
I cannot express how disheartened and saddened I am by this. At the same time I'm enraged and, to be honest, extremely worried. Sick, insane stuff like this is even going on in presumably safe, small towns inhabited by humble people. Just disgusting, demoralizing and unbelievable.
Supposedly this one was 'planned' for a while. Or, a shooting was. Speculation is that this schoolhouse was chosen because it was closeby.
And a fourth girl just died.
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