Gunman chose Amish school because it was easy target
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NICKEL MINES, Penn.  - The 32-year-old dairy truck driver who stormed a one-room school and killed five girls apparently chose the schoolhouse because it was an easy target rather than because he had a grudge against the Amish, police said.
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BART TOWNSHIP, Pa., Oct. 4 -- Haunted by an ugly secret he claimed to have kept since childhood and recurring dreams of molesting young girls, Charles C. Roberts IV clearly "planned to dig in for the long siege" and torment his young victims in an Amish schoolhouse before executing them and killing...
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A gunman who killed four people in two shootings did not send hate mail to a Christian missionary training center where some of the victims were shot, authorities said Friday, backing off from their earlier statements.
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Scores of horse-drawn buggies from across the Pennsylvania countryside clip-clopped past the home of the schoolhouse gunman to a wind-swept, hilltop graveyard Thursday as the Amish buried four of the girls killed in their classroom.
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And idiots break themselves against martial artists Comments An armed robber, evidently going for the soft targets, attempted to hold up a karate school in the Columbian town of Bucaramanga. For his pains he received a dis-arming and further pain when the students "put their knowledge to use". A bit of practical experience probably did them some good, although the robber might have preferred to avoid it.â¦
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A milk-truck driver carrying three guns and a childhood grudge stormed a one-room Amish schoolhouse Monday, sent the boys and adults outside, barricaded the doors with two-by-fours, and then opened fire on a dozen girls, killing three people before committing suicide.
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QUARRYVILLE, Pa., Oct. 3 -- The man who killed five Amish girls and seriously injured five others by shooting them execution-style in their one-room schoolhouse told his wife shortly before opening fire that he had molested two young female relatives 20 years ago and had been having dreams of...
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Four days after a grisly attack on an Amish schoolhouse, funerals were held for four of the five girls who were killed.
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DEKALB, Illinois  - A man who killed five students and himself during a shooting spree at an Illinois college had stopped taking medication and become erratic in the last two weeks, buying two guns used in the bloodbath just six days ago, officials said on Friday.
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BART TOWNSHIP, Pa., Oct. 4 -- The Amish community began preparations Wednesday to bury the five young girls killed in an execution-style attack at their one-room schoolhouse earlier this week by a man haunted by recurring dreams of molesting young girls.
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An Amish man, standing by the bed of his slain granddaughter, told young relatives not to hate the gunman who killed five girls in their classroom, a pastor said on Wednesday. Simple funerals are being planned for the victims, while their families work to forgive the killer, neighbors say.
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The gunman who slaughtered Amish children in their tiny schoolhouse seemed fine the night before his rampage, a relative said Thursday. "We had no indication there was anything wrong," said Lloyd Welk. He spoke as mourners passed his home en route to nearby funeral services for four of the five girls killed by Charles Carl Roberts IV.
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A student charged in the shooting death of his school principal was a normal teenager but often bragged about getting into trouble, a neighbor said Saturday as this tiny farm town struggled to come to terms with the attack.
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Several people were shot and killed by a gunman who attacked an Amish school in Pennsylvania on Monday and was then either captured or killed, police said.
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NICKEL MINES, Penn.  - A gunman killed three schoolgirls execution style and then shot himself dead on Monday after bursting into an Amish school in rural Pennsylvania, where he ordered the boys to leave and lined the girls up against the blackboard, police said.
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Even with a revamped response plan, Illinois college could not stop a gunman intent on killing.
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SALT LAKE CITY, Utah  - The gunman who shot dead five people in a Salt Lake City shopping mall rampage was an 18-year-old Bosnian refugee, but his motive was a mystery, police said on Tuesday.