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West Nickel Mines School shooting | |
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Location | Bart Township, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
Date | October 2, 2006 c. 10:25 – c. 11:07 a.m. |
Target | Female students at West Nickel Mines School |
Attack type | Femicide, pedicide, school shooting, hostage taking, murder–suicide, mass shooting, mass murder |
Weapons | |
Deaths | 6 (including the perpetrator) |
Injured | 5 |
Perpetrator | Charles Carl Roberts IV |
On October 2, 2006, a shooting occurred at the West Nickel Mines School, an Amish one-room schoolhouse in the Old Order Amish community of Nickel Mines, a village in Bart Township, Pennsylvania.[1][2][3] Gunman Charles Carl Roberts IV took hostages and shot ten girls (aged 6–13), killing five, before committing suicide in the schoolhouse.[1][2][3][4] The emphasis on forgiveness and reconciliation in the Amish community's response was widely discussed by the national media. The West Nickel Mines School was later demolished, and a new one-room schoolhouse, the New Hope School, was built at another location.