NICKEL MINES, Pennsylvania A dairy truck driver, apparently nursing a 20-year-old grudge, walked into a one-room Amish schoolhouse here Monday morning and systematically tried to execute the girls there, killing four and wounding seven before killing himself, the police said.
The heavily armed gunman first ordered the 15 boys in the room to leave, along with several adults, and demanded that the 11 girls line up facing the blackboard. As the gunman lashed the students’ legs together with wire and plastic ties, the teacher dashed from the room and called the police around 10:35 a.m.
The gunman, identified as Charles Roberts, 32, killed himself as the police stormed the West Nickel Mines Amish School, which is set back in a cornfield on a street of stone houses, barns and silos in Lancaster County, about 50 miles west of Philadelphia. Several of the wounded were in critical condition in area hospitals.
“He wanted to find female victims,” said Colonel Jeffrey Miller, commissioner of the Pennsylvania State Police. “This was a target of opportunity.”
Source: International Herald Tribune
Just goes to show that “bullying” or some “childhood trauma” can be buried in one’s mind. This is a resentment that turned to revenge. Why oh why didn’t he talk to someone? Teachers need to pay attention to their students..those that are sensitive to class bullies. My heart goes out to these innocent children who are peaceful by nature.
