Still no word if the killer was "English," or an Amish kid coming off of a bad Rumspringa:
A gunman killed "a number" of people at a one-room Amish schoolhouse Monday in Pennsylvania's bucolic Lancaster County, state police said.The shooter was among the dead, and a number of people were injured, said state police Cpl. Ralph Striebig.
"There are a number of people dead," Striebig said. "The exact number I do not know yet."
Police surrounded the one-room school 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.
UPDATE:
Six dead, including the killer.
No, the figure now stands at four girls dead.
UPDATE II:
He was English:
A 32-year-old truck driver took more than a dozen students hostage in a one-room Amish schoolhouse Monday, barred the doors with boards and fatally shot at least six people, authorities said.The gunman, identified as Charles Carl Roberts, had been in the school about 45 minutes before police got the call, State Police Commissioner Jeffrey B. Miller said. Officers had to break windows to get into the school. By then, three young girls and the gunman were dead, he said.
He was another one who was only targeting girls. That's three attacks like that I can think of.
Posted by floridacracker at October 2, 2006 01:14 PMI bet you can smell the sulfur on this dude's corpse; it is an absolutely horrific crime.
Posted by: Paco Malo at October 2, 2006 04:13 PMWhat were they, ages 6-13? And him in his 30's? Surely his "traumatic" event from 20 years ago didn't involve anyone in that age range.
Looks like a copycat to me. Sorry those little girls had to pay for his sick head.
Posted by: Donnah at October 2, 2006 04:56 PMCrimes like this are just sickening.
It appears that predators have finally come to realize that schools are the perfect undefended target rich enviorment.
Posted by: Gmac at October 2, 2006 07:24 PMIt looks that way.
I wonder when it's going to percolate down into the mind of the general public that if a gunman tells the boys to leave, the girls are toast.
target rich indeed... amish to boot, talk about non-confrontational...
Wonder why Mother Sheehan and jesse Jackson havent
tapped into *these* people as an example of how the rest of America should live..
2 more girls died over night - one the teachers assistant, just a little over 13 years old.
What gets me (well, one of the things) is he was their milk man. He'd been to their farms.
AND he had just walked his own children to the bus stop for school. He put his children on that bus, knowing he was going to go to another school and kill young girls.
And yes, easy target in deed. 1 room school house, Amish believe in "turn the other cheek" and then he targeted girls to boot.
arrgghhh - sorry Donnah. I should have just kept my spoutin' off for my place. Everything I get started on this.......
Posted by: Tammi at October 3, 2006 09:34 PM