The Amish school shooting happened on October 2, 2006. The shooting took place in Lancaster County which is about 60 miles west of Philadelphia at a school run by the Amish community. There were 26 students in the school on the day of the shooting. The oldest being 13 and the youngest 6 years old. He let the 15 boys present at the school go. He targeted the girls. The shooter was a 32-year-old named Charles Carl Roberts IV, and he wasn’t Amish. He had no reported mental disabilities. The guns he was carrying were a shotgun, a semiautomatic pistol and a rifle. Afterwards a local police officer said he also had a stun gun, two knives and a bag holding 600 rounds of ammunition. He killed five girls before killing himself, and He inured five others.
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His motives for the shooting I find weird and awkward. His motives were found in a letter to his wife, Maria. In these letters he spoke about how he was dreaming of molesting children again. He said he molested two of his younger relatives 20 years ago. At this time his relatives would have been 4 and 5 years old, and he would have been 12. When the relatives were asked by authorities they said they had no memory of this ever happening. KY Jelly was found in classroom and is believed to have been there to be a sexual lubricant. That is disgusting.
After reading and researching about this shooting I’m disgusted by this man. Even though he had no reported mental disabilities; he was clearly messed up in the head. I have no idea who would be willing to marry a man like this. It’s just so tragic that these Amish children had their lives taken away from them by a man like this.
Sources: http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/10/02/amish.shooting/index.html
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Well done Sam!