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Lancaster, PA Amish School shooting
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NICKEL MINES, Pa. — Several people were shot and killed execution style when an armed truck driver entered a one-room Amish schoolhouse in Lancaster County Monday, Pennsylvania police said.
State Police Commissioner Jeffrey Miller said three students were found shot dead at the scene, along with the suspect. At least seven more — some critically injured with gunshot wounds — were transported to nearby hospitals, he said. One of the girls died in the arms of the police, Miller said. He could not confirm how many people died en route to the hospital. The county coroner earlier said six were killed.
The gunman brought in pieces of wood to board up the doors to the building when he entered the school, Miller said.
"It appears that the suspect entered school with the intention of taking hostages," he added.
The gunman also had wire ties and flex cuff, which he used to begin tying the hostages feet together. He let the male students, as well as one adult female who was pregnant, to leave. 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.
There were also notes left by the gunman, identified as Charles Carl Roberts IV, a 32-year-old milk delivery man from nearby Bart, Pa., Miller said. The notes, left for Roberts' wife, indicated that he was seeking revenge for something that happened decades ago.
Lancaster County Coroner G. Gary Kirchner earlier said six were killed from the school shooting. "So far, six confirmed dead, and the helicopters are pulling into [Lancaster General Hospital] like crazy,"
It was the nation's third deadly school shooting in less than a week, and one of the deadliest in U.S. history.
Kim Hatch, spokeswoman for the Lancaster General Hospital, said three victims ages six through 12 arrived there with gunshot wounds — some to the head — and are in critical condition. Two of those victims were sent to Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, while the third was sent to the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. One other patient has been sent to Reading Hospital of Pennsylvania.
John Line, also from Lancaster General, told FOX News that center doesn't expect to receive anymore patients.
The police told FOX News that it was a hostage situation and that the shooter is now dead. It's not yet known whether the shooter is counted among the six deaths reported by the coroner. 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 Monday afternoon.
The school is in Paradise Township on Mine Road — an Amish community within the township. There are a total of 27 students in grades 1 through 8 at Wolf Rock School, where the shooting took place.
Police late Monday morning surrounded the one-room schoolhouse, a tiny building surrounded by a white fence and farm fields in southeastern Lancaster County. The Lancaster County 911 Web site reported that dozens of emergency units were dispatched to a "medical emergency" at 10:45 a.m. Monday.
Hours after the attack, about three dozen people in traditional Amish clothing, broad-brimmed hats and bonnets stood nearby speaking to one another and authorities. Others gathered with a group of children at a nearby farm. Emergency responders were seen searching the school grounds for evidence.
The school is just outside Nickel Mines, a tiny village about 55 miles west of Philadelphia.
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. Click here for the latest on the Cazenovia story.
Just two days earlier, an adult gunman held six girls hostage in a school at Bailey, Colo., before killing a 16-year-old girl and then himself. Click here to read the latest on that story.
Nationwide, the 1999 ColumbineHigh School massacre in Littleton, Colo., remains the deadliest school shooting, claiming the lives of 15 people, including the two teenage gunmen. Last year, a 16-year-old shot seven people to death at a school on Minnesota's Red Lake Indian Reservation, then killed himself.
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This just happened this morning. I've been watching the news on television and it said on tv that there are only 3 confirmed student deaths instead of 6.
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