Friday, March 30, 2007
New Hope for Amish children - Lancaster Online
Six months after tragedy, school will open Monday at Nickel Mines. Much has changed.
... Much of the new school is made of brick, not wood, and its large outhouse is largely brick. The schoolhouse has locks and a "panic bar" inside the front door. The building is of sturdy construction and can be secured against outside entry.
So why does a paved driveway lead to the front door?...
"The kids all - to a kid - remembered the shooter coming in and spinning tires with the gravel,'' he said this morning. "They wanted that not to be a possible event ever again.''
On the morning of Oct. 2, 2006, Charles Carl Roberts IV, who lived in nearby Georgetown, drove a pickup truck up the gravel drive of the old school.
He walked inside and drew a gun. He dismissed the teacher and other adults and all the boys. He lined up the girls, ages 6 to 13, and shot 10, killing five and seriously wounding the others. Then he killed himself before state police broke into the building. ...
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According to a related A.P. story, Amish school in shooting rampage to reopen,
[the killer,] Charles Roberts, [was] apparently tormented by an unconfirmed memory of having molested relatives 20 years earlier, and by the 1997 death of his own infant daughter ...
Six months after tragedy, school will open Monday at Nickel Mines. Much has changed.
... Much of the new school is made of brick, not wood, and its large outhouse is largely brick. The schoolhouse has locks and a "panic bar" inside the front door. The building is of sturdy construction and can be secured against outside entry.
So why does a paved driveway lead to the front door?...
"The kids all - to a kid - remembered the shooter coming in and spinning tires with the gravel,'' he said this morning. "They wanted that not to be a possible event ever again.''
On the morning of Oct. 2, 2006, Charles Carl Roberts IV, who lived in nearby Georgetown, drove a pickup truck up the gravel drive of the old school.
He walked inside and drew a gun. He dismissed the teacher and other adults and all the boys. He lined up the girls, ages 6 to 13, and shot 10, killing five and seriously wounding the others. Then he killed himself before state police broke into the building. ...
***
According to a related A.P. story, Amish school in shooting rampage to reopen,
[the killer,] Charles Roberts, [was] apparently tormented by an unconfirmed memory of having molested relatives 20 years earlier, and by the 1997 death of his own infant daughter ...
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