Amish school shooting

When

2 Oct 2006

Kind

Shooting

Killed

6

Coordinates

39.96° N, 76.08° W

Description

2006 school shooting in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

Injured

5

2006 mass shooting in Pennsylvania, U.S.

On October 2, 2006, a mass 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, Pennsylvania. Thirty-two-year-old Charles Carl Roberts IV took hostages and shot ten girls, killing six unsuspecting citizens, before dying by suicide in the schoolhouse. The emphasis on forgiveness and reconciliation in the Amish com…

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• Wikidata: shootings and murdersWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Charles Carl Roberts IV, a 32-year-old milk-truck driver, kills five girls at an Amish schoolhouse in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, before shooting himself”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en el Condado de Lancaster (Pensilvania), un tal Charles Carl Roberts (conductor de camión de leche de 32 años) mata a tiros a 5 estudiantes en una escuela…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page