Strange as it might seem, Charles Carl Roberts IV and Jonas Beiler had one thing in common. Both Roberts, the man who shot five Amish girls to death and wounded five others in their Nickel Mines school in 2006, and Beiler, the family counselor and chairman of the Angela Foundation, lost young daughters in tragic circumstances.
At what point do a country and its news media note this lethally combustible cocktail of gender and guns?" [Daniel Moshenberg] asks. "Until we see 'the gun problem' as equally a problem of violence against women, nothing will change. Like [Charles Carl Roberts IV], [Marc Lepine] shot and killed himself. He was carrying a list of 15 well-known women. He wrote that "feminists have always spoiled" his life. He blamed women for his failures and said he was going to kill some women in revenge. He wrote that he had hoped to attend Ecole Polytechnique, but had not been able to do so. (Did he believe that this was the fault of the female students he killed?) At the time of the shootings he was jobless. A summit on school violence, held in the White House in early October, followed the killing...
A year has passed since the horrific shooting of 10 Amish girls in their Lancaster County, Pa., school. In the weeks that followed, people around the world expressed great sympathy for the Amish community in Nickel Mines, and many lauded their quick extension of forgiveness to the shooter, Charles Carl Roberts IV. The forgiveness story is astounding and deserving of our attention. But there's another story that must precede it if we are to remember the Nickel Mines shooting in a way that truly honors the victims, their families and the act of forgiveness: the violence story.
QUARRYVILLE, Pa. -- A gunman who invaded a tiny Amish school may have had a plan that went beyond the execution-style slayings of five girls. Investigators believe Charles Carl Roberts IV, 32, spent nearly a week plotting his takeover of the one-room schoolhouse and may have been planning to sexually assault almost a dozen female students.
QUARRYVILLE, Pa. The gunman who killed five girls in an Amish schoolroom confided to his wife during the siege that he molested two relatives 20 years ago when he was boy and was tormented by dreams of doing it again, authorities said Tuesday. Investigators also said that Charles Carl Roberts IV, 32, plotted his takeover of the school for nearly a week and that the items he brought including flexible plastic ties, eyebolts and lubricating jelly suggest he may have been planning to sexually assault the Amish girls before police closed in.
The day before he put a 9mm pistol to the backs of young girls' heads and pulled the trigger 13 times, Charles Carl Roberts IV seemed relaxed, whiling away the waning weekend with his family and getting ready for another night behind the wheel of his milk truck. How the same man could walk his two oldest children to the bus stop Monday morning, then walk up to someone else's children with a sack of guns and a death wish a few hours later remains the only mystery in the tragedy Monday at West Nickel Mine Amish School.
LANCASTER, Pa. - The Amish schoolhouse gunman opened fire on his 10 hostages just moments after demanding authorities get off the property, giving state troopers no time to try to save the girls, according to investigators and 911 transcripts released Tuesday. Charles Carl Roberts IV threatened to kill the children "in two seconds" during a 70-second call to a 911 dispatcher.
Like most Americans, I've become regrettably inured to the daily reports of gun violence and gun death in this country. Oh, I know, "Guns don't kill people; people kill people." But last week's attempted slaughter of 10 Amish schoolgirls (as of this writing, five have died) hit me in a place the National Rifle Association had not yet calloused over with the propaganda it so routinely blares through a well-financed bullhorn of a public relations machine. Why the gunfire in Nickel Mines, Pa., struck so hard, I'll never know. I guess the visual picture of Charles Carl Roberts segregating out children by gender, binding the girls' feet with wire and plastic ties, then shooting them execution-style, gut-punched me in a place I thought I'd toughened off and hidden away. I thought my emotions ...
GEORGETOWN, Pa. Dozens of Amish neighbors came out Saturday to mourn the quiet milkman who killed five of their young girls and wounded five more in a brief, unfathomable rampage. Charles Carl Roberts IV, 32, was buried in his wife's family plot behind a small Methodist church, a few miles from the one-room schoolhouse he stormed Monday.
LANCASTER, Pa. - The Amish schoolhouse gunman threatened to kill his hostages "in two seconds" if authorities did not leave the property, according to a 911 transcript released Tuesday. Don't try to talk me out of it, get them all off the property now," Charles Carl Roberts IV told a Lancaster County dispatcher in a call that came in at 10:55 a.m. Oct 2.
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