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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An adult gunman took at least four people hostage at the high school in this tiny mountain town Wednesday and several shots were reported fired, authorities said.
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BAILEY, Colo. -- The gunman who killed himself after fatally shooting one of six girls he held in a high school classroom methodically selected his hostages and had sexually assaulted some of them, the sheriff and a witness said Thursday.
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NICKEL MINES, Penn.  - A dairy truck driver with a grudge burst into a one-room Amish schoolhouse on Monday and killed three girls execution style before committing suicide in the third deadly U.S. school shooting in the past week, authorities said.
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A gunman, possibly a parent, who said he   had explosives opened fire at a Colorado high school on   Wednesday, taking at least four hostages and prompting the   evacuation of hundreds of students, police said.
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A gunman burst into a one-room schoolhouse in a Pennsylvania Amish community this morning, lined at least 10 girls up against a blackboard and shot them, killing at least three before taking his own life, police said.
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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.
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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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Under a cold, steady drizzle, the Amish drove in horse and buggy to a farmland cemetery Friday to bury the fifth of five girls shot to death by an intruder as new details emerged of heroism inside their schoolhouse.
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When Colonel William Prescott commanded his troops not to fire until they saw "the whites of their eyes" at the Battle of Bunker Hill, his point was pretty simple: The closer the target, the higher probability the shot will be true.
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Three days after a gunman's gruesome attack on an Amish schoolhouse, four of the five girls killed in the attack will be buried Thursday.
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NICKEL MINES, Penn.  - Two girls died overnight after a school shooting in Pennsylvania, bringing to five the number of students killed when a gunman burst into their one-room schoolhouse, state police said on Tuesday.
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A 17-year-old student said he was only doing the right thing when he told authorities his friends were planning a Columbine-like attack on East High School last week.
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Two relatives of the man who attacked an Amish school said they were not molested by him 20 years ago as he had claimed, investigators said Wednesday.
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Illinois university had revamped its response plan, but could not stop a gunman intent on killing.
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In a mountain meadow not far where she was shot by a gunman who invaded her school, those who knew Emily Keyes &#151; and many who didn't &#151; came together on a bright, breezy fall Saturday to remember the teen and hear a message of forgiveness and hope.
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A 17-year-old who survived being shot four times by an ex-boyfriend who then killed himself had transferred to the school where she was wounded to get away from him, a relative said Friday.