Amish school shooting!

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TweetCoroner Reports 6 Dead in Pennsylvania Amish School Shooting

Monday , October 02, 2006




NICKEL MINES, Pa. — Six people were killed by a gunman at a one-room Amish schoolhouse in Lancaster County Monday, according to the county coroner.

Earlier, state police Cpl. Ralph Striebig said "there are a number of people dead. ... The exact number I do not know yet."

The police told FOX News that it was in fact a hostage situation and that the shooter is now killed. 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 before 1 p.m. ET.

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The school is in Paradise Township on Mine Road, in Bart — an Amish community within the township. There are a total of 27 students in Wolf Rock School, where the shooting took place.

The Lancaster County 911 Web site reported that dozens of emergency units were dispatched to a "medical emergency" at 10:45 a.m. Monday.

About three-dozen Amish people congregated near the scene. Television news helicopters also showed a person being taken away on a stretcher to a waiting medical helicopter.

Officials at the Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center confirmed that victims were being admitted there. A spokeswoman said the hospital anticipated treating more than one patient, but did not know how many.

FOX News' Rick Leventhal and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

[McKenzie]

Tweetuh Steve?

[McKenzie]

Tweetok ok...that was awful of me...I did see this just a few mins ago.

This makes, what, the 3rd school shooting in the past week or so?

[kite]

Tweetyup. I don't think Steve would have to use a gun, I doubt the Amish have seen very many people his size even if he has lost weight, lol.

[McKenzie]

TweetI thought Amish men were big....from doing such hard labor? but then again the things I learned/know about the Amish were from the movies Witness and KingPin.

[kite]

TweetI doubt there are any 300+ freaks though, and I'm sure they don't eat like a bb, strongman or pl would. Find me an Amish cat like that and I'll lick the lint from between your toes.

[McKenzie]

Tweet^

my toes specifically? or just anyones in general?

[kite]

TweetWhatever you command mistress.

[McKenzie]

Tweetwell, I mean...I dont have lint in between my toes...but I sometimes have sand from the beach.

Trust me, I wouldnt make you lick my toes .... now my left elbow...oh yeah!

[McKenzie]

TweetNICKEL MINES, Pa. - Six people were shot to death at a one-room Amish schoolhouse in Pennsylvania's bucolic Lancaster County Monday, and at least three young girls were hospitalized in critical condition, authorities said.

It was the nation's third deadly school shooting in less than a week, and one of the deadliest in U.S. history.

"So far, six confirmed dead, and the helicopters are pulling into (Lancaster General Hospital) like crazy," Coroner G. Gary Kirchner said.

It wasn't immediately clear if the shooter was among the six. State Police Cpl. Ralph Striebig said earlier that the shooter was dead, but he released no details about that person or a possible motive.

Three girls, ages 6-12, were admitted to Lancaster General Hospital in critical condition with gunshot wounds, spokesman John Lines said. Officials at the Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center confirmed that victims also were being admitted there.

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.

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 while investigators stretched out in a line across a field searching for evidence.

The school is just outside Nickel Mines, a tiny village about 55 miles west of Philadelphia.

It was the third small community to be shocked by a deadly school shootings in just the past week.

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. 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.

Nationwide, the 1999 Columbine High 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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TweetFRIGGIN UNREAL....WHERE ARE ALL THESE NUT'S COMING FROM??!!

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TweetI saw this on the news this morning while I was at the DMV. There was also something else that happened with a former student at a Las Vegas school.

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FRIGGIN UNREAL....WHERE ARE ALL THESE NUT'S COMING FROM??!!

They are coming from dysfunctional families is my guess. No kid who is loved and cared for does this kind of crap when they grow up. I did a studyonce in HS about these kinds of people and every one of them had some kind of phuked up family. Either they were abused, molested, neglected, belittled or something. But, none of them ever claimed to have come from a loving supporting family. This is why us parents need to make a conscience effort to get deeply involved in our kids lives. We need to hug and kiss them every chance we get. We need to be there for them every time they fall so they know they aren't alone. I'm not saying we hold their hand through life, but just be close enough so they can call on us any time they need.

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Tweetwhy can't these suicidal fuks just kill themselves and not take innocent lives with them, scumbags.

[BigDawg]

TweetAmen vette!!