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16 years since Lancaster County Amish schoolhouse shooting

October 2, 2022

NICKEL MINES, PA — Sunday, Oct. 2, marks 16 years since the shooting at an Amish schoolhouse in Nickel Mines, Lancaster County that killed five girls.

Police say a milk truck driver, Charles Roberts, held 10 girls hostage in a schoolhouse on Oct. 2, 2006. Roberts barricaded himself in the schoolhouse when he started shooting the hostages.

Roberts killed five of them before turning the gun on himself. Five of the girls survived.

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