Monday, October 02, 2006

What in the hell is going on...

UPDATED: BREAKING NEWS FROM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
A milk truck-driver carrying two guns, a stack of wood and an old grudge entered a one-room Amish schoolhouse today in Lancaster County, Pa., let boys and several adults go, then barricaded himself inside with a dozen young girls before opening fire on them, killing three girls and then himself.
It was the third deadly school shooting in less than a week in the United States, this time in a bucolic stretch of Lancaster County where horse-drawn buggies carry plainly dressed Amish along twisting backcountry roads and where violent crime is virtually nonexistent.
Seven others were taken to hospitals and most of the victims were shot at point-blank range, authorities said.
The gunman, Charles Carl Roberts IV, is not Amish and apparently chose the school because he was bent on killing young girls as a way of "acting out in revenge for something that happened 20 years ago," state police Commissioner Jeffrey B. Miller said.
A 32-year-old truck driver from the town of Bart, Roberts apparently killed himself after shooting up the school, Miller said. He had left several rambling notes to his wife that Miller said were "along the lines of suicide notes."
Roberts walked into the one-room West Nickel Mines Amish School -- which had about 25 to 30 students, ages six to 13 -- at around 10 a.m., armed with a shotgun, an automatic handgun and several pieces of wood, Miller said.

Natalie and Elizabeth were just there. It's less than an hour from here.

The news is still breaking at this hour. I'll blog later when I can write something coherent other than typing "What the Fuck?" over and over and over...

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