Amish school shooting update

Home World Four injured in Texas high school shooting; gunman fled Four injured in Texas high school shooting; gunman fled Authorities said at a news conference that the shooting happened after a fight broke out in the school. By: AP Updated: October 6, pm. The Indian Express website has been rated GREEN for its credibility and trustworthiness by Newsguard, a global service that rates news sources for their journalistic standards. He also said he had molested two young female relatives when a teen, a claim that was never proven.

When the troopers came , he fired at each of the 10 girls, then shot himself dead. The community convulsed in shock and grief. The boys had a lucky escape, so everyone said. But they themselves were traumatized. It bothered him and other boys that they had not done something. Some of them are still struggling with that, 10 years on. Within days, the community knocked down the school house. In Blacksburg, Virginia, a disturbed student killed 32 students and members of staff.

Many in Nickel Mines were distressed all over again. Aaron Jr went through a growth spurt that winter, growing from 5ft 1in to 5ft 6in, but his weight dropped from lb to 90lb. The boy would come home early from school, having panic attacks. Like most of the survivors and bereaved, he and his brother accepted counselling from outside professional therapists.

But Aaron Jr was depressed. In the summer of , he ended up in a secure hospital ward, close to death from starvation. He spent many painful months recovering, the family said. Aaron Jr said that around that time, three state troopers came to visit him. They sat outside on the porch, he said, and told him what happened at the school was not his fault. If he had tried to intervene, they said, the outcome would probably have been a lot worse.

At one point I had had thoughts of suicide. Then he smiled. He barricaded the doors with two-by-fours and two-by-sixes nailed into place, piled-up desks and flexible plastic ties; made the remaining girls line up along a blackboard; and tied their feet together with wire ties and plastic ties, Miller said.

The teacher and another adult at the school fled to a farmhouse nearby, and someone there called at am to report a gunman holding students hostage.

Police arrived to the scene at am, and set up a perimeter while trying to speak to Roberts via loudspeaker. Roberts apparently called his wife around 11 a.

Their conversation was limited and Miller said Marie Roberts did not hear anything in the background. Roberts seemed calm if a bit subdued, Miller said, and not agitated. He said Roberts went in alone, planned to go in alone, and it seemed he had no intention of coming out alive, "whether by his own hand or in a police suicide scenario. Moments later, Roberts called himself and told a dispatcher he would open fire on the children if police didn't back away from the building.

Miller said negotiators obtained his cellphone number from that call and scrambled to get ahold of him, but within seconds, troopers heard gunfire. They smashed the windows to get inside, and found his body and those of the children. Miller said he had no immediate evidence that the victims were sexually assaulted or that there was any attempt at a sexual assault. Killed were two students, and a female teacher's aide who was 15 or 16 years old, authorities said.

Another young student died later Monday night. Police did not reveal the identities or exact ages of the victims, saying Monday evening that 2 had yet to be identified. Authorities said the man in Colorado sexually molested the girls. Miller, though, said he believed the Pennsylvania attack was not a copycat crime: "I really believe this was about this individual and what was going on inside his head.

Roberts, a year-old father of three who lived about a mile away, tied up the girls and shot them after ordering the boys and adults to leave the school. Investigators found evidence he was haunted by his infant daughter's death in and by an uncorroborated memory of having molested young female relatives 20 years earlier. The school building's replacement, New Hope Amish School, was built with added security features in a safer location a mile away.

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