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On October 2, 2006, a shooting occurred at the West Nickel Mines School, an Amish one-room schoolhouse in the Old Order Amish community of Nickel Mines, a village in Bart Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Gunman Charles Carl Roberts IV took hostages and shot eight out of ten girls (aged 6–13), killing five, before committing suicide in the schoolhouse. The emphasis on forgiveness and reconciliation in the response of the Amish community was widely discussed in the national media. The West Nickel Mines School was torn down, and a new one-room schoolhouse, the New Hope School, was built at another location.
Roberts backed a pickup truck up to the front of the Amish schoolhouse and entered the school at approximately 10:25 a.m. EDT, shortly after the children had returned from recess. He asked the teacher, Emma Mae Zook, and the students if they had seen a missing clevis pin on the road. Survivors said that Roberts was mumbling his words and was not making direct eye contact. After the occupants of the classroom denied seeing a clevis pin, Roberts walked out to his truck and reappeared in the classroom holding a Springfield XD 9mm handgun. He ordered the boys to help him carry items into the classroom from the back of his pickup. Zook and her mother, who was visiting the schoolhouse, took this opportunity to escape the school and ran toward a nearby farm to get help. Roberts saw them leave, and ordered one of the boys to stop them, threatening to shoot everyone if the women got away.
Charles Carl Roberts IV (December 7, 1973 – October 2, 2006) was an American milk truck driver who murdered five Amish girls and injured five others before killing himself in an Amish school in the hamlet of Nickel Mines, in Bart Township, Pennsylvania on October 2, 2006.
Charles Carl Roberts IV was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. His father is retired from the local police force. In 2004, his father applied to the state for a special license to provide paratransit service to the Amish. Roberts earned a diploma through a home-school association, and neither he nor his family were Amish. In 1990, Roberts worked as a dishwasher at Good 'N Plenty Restaurant in Smoketown, Pennsylvania. Roberts was a commercial milk tank driver, employed by North West Foods.
On October 2, 2006, Roberts entered the one-room West Nickel Mines School at 9:51 a.m. with a Springfield XD 9×19mm handgun, a Browning 12 gauge shotgun, a Ruger .30-06 bolt-action rifle, about 600 rounds of ammunition, cans of black powder, a stun gun, two knives, a change of clothes, an apparent truss board and a box containing a hammer, hacksaw, pliers, wire, screws, bolts and tape. He used 2×6 and 2×4 boards with eye bolts and flex ties to barricade the school doors before binding the arms and legs of the hostages. He ordered the hostages to line up against the chalkboard and released the 15 male students present, along with a pregnant woman and three parents with infants. The remaining 10 female students he kept inside the schoolhouse. The school teacher contacted the police upon escaping at approximately 10:36 a.m. The first police officers arrived about nine minutes later and attempted (unsuccessfully) to communicate with Roberts using the PA system in their cars. Roberts called 911 and told the dispatchers that if police did not get off the "property", he would kill the hostages.
Pls Subscribe for more raw world News! Wife of Amish Schoolhouse Shooter GMA Interview Amish School shooting Charles Carl Roberts Wife of Amish schoolhouse shooter breaks her silence On October 2, 2006, a shooting occurred at the West Nickel Mines School, an Amish one-room schoolhouse in the Old Order Amish community of Nickel Mines, a village in Bart Township of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.[1][2][3] Gunman Charles Carl Roberts IV took hostages and shot ten girls (aged 6--13), killing five, before committing suicide in the schoolhouse.[1][2][3][4] The emphasis on forgiveness and reconciliation in the response of the Amish community was widely discussed in the national media. The West Nickel Mines School was torn down, and a new one-room schoolhouse, the New Hope School, was built at a...
Married to a school shooter: Wife of man who shot dead 5 girls in Amish school massacre speaks out living with what he did and how she had tell her own three children The wife of a man who shot 10 girls at an Amish school - killing five - before turning the gun on himself, has spoken out for the first time this week about how she came to terms with what he had done. Marie Roberts Monville was married to 32-year-old Charlie Roberts when he opened fire at West Nickel Mines school in rural Pennsylvania on October 2 2006. The milk truck driver, who was not Amish, singled out the girls aged between 6 and 13 in his deadly attack - ordering the male pupils and teachers out of the classroom before he lined-up and shot the children one-by-one in the head.
1. Police on horseback leading funeral procession, pull out and pan right as funeral procession of horse-drawn carriages follows 2. Mid shot of horse-drawn carriages in funeral procession through Nickel Mines 3. Three shots (wide shot, close shot, pan left) of funeral procession passing Roberts' (the gunman) house 4. Close-up of hooves and wheels passing 5. Mourners passing carts 6. Wide of Jacquie Hess (Aunt of Roberts' Wife) talking to reporters 7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Jacquie Hess, aunt of Roberts' wife: "We just talked about what had happened and how it could happen and that they have forgiven what has taken place and that there is no hard feelings. And they want us to just all pull together as a community and still just keep our trust in God to help us all get through everythin...
Widow of Amish schoolhouse shooter Charlie Roberts tells sto View article at http://lancasteronline.com/article/local/900295
AP Television Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania - 4 October 2006 1. Wide shot of schoolhouse with "No Trespassing" signs posted on surrounding fence 2. Close shot of "No Trespassing" sign on boarded up window 3. Close shot of bell in school bell tower Lititz, Pennsylvania - 4 October 2006 4. Shot of Janice Ballenger hugging rescue worker 5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Janice Ballenger, Deputy Coroner: "I can't describe the scene, other than it was horrific." Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania - 4 October 2006 6. Various shots of empty swing set in schoolyard Lititz, Pennsylvania - 4 October 2006 7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Janice Ballenger, Deputy Coroner: "Children are something - you just think you're never going to get those images out of your mind. I'm not saying others aren't, you know, just a...
1. Sunrise over a farm in Amish country 2. Wide of farm 3. Amish man walking along 4. Horse and cart on road 5. Amish couple walking along road 6. Wide of Amish farm building 7. Medium of West Nickel Mines Amish School, (place of shooting) 8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Jeffrey B. Miller, State Police Commissioner: "Obviously, this was a deeply troubled man and there were things that were not visible on the surface that were going on." (Reporter question: In your interviews, have you gleaned anything new overnight?) "We're putting the pieces together. We're trying our best to make sense of something that you really can't make sense of." 9. Wide of farm in Amish country 10. Amish man riding on horse and cart 11. Amish girl putting letter in post box at side of road 12. SOUNDBIT...
The mother of Nickel Mines schoolhouse shooter Charles Carl Roberts IV describes the relationship she's developed with the families of the Amish victims.
On October 2, 2006, the world's eyes turned to a one-room schoolhouse in Nickel Mines, Lancaster County, PA, where a troubled truck driver named Charlie Roberts shot 10 Amish girls, killing five and wounding five others, before turning the gun on himself. View article at http://articles.lancasteronline.com/local/4/471039
The mother of Nickel Mines schoolhouse shooter Charles Carl Roberts IV describes the unique relationship she developed with the families of the Amish victims in the 10 years since the tragedy.
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