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On Monday morning, October 2, 2006, a gunman entered a one-room Amish school in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania. In front of twenty-five horrified pupils, thirty-two-year-old Charles Roberts ordered the boys and the teacher to leave. After tying the legs of the ten remaining girls, Roberts prepared to shoot them execution with an automatic rifle and four hundred rounds of ammunition that he brought for the task. The oldest hostage, a thirteen-year-old, begged Roberts to "shoot me first and let the little ones go." Refusing her offer, he opened fire on all of them, killing five and leaving the others critically wounded. He then shot himself as police stormed the building. His motivation? "I'm angry at God for taking my little daughter," he told the children before the massacre. The story captured the attention of broadcast and print media in the United States and around the world. By Tuesday morning some fifty television crews had clogged the small village of Nickel Mines,...
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Amish, Doctrines, Forgiveness of sin, Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, West Nickel Mines Amish School, Amish School Shooting, Nickel Mines, Pa., 2006, Christian life & practice, Denominations of American origin, Christianity - History - General, Murder - General, Religion / Church History, Religion, Religion - Church HistoryEdition | Availability |
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Amish Grace: How Forgiveness Transcended Tragedy
2010, Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
in English
0470873809 9780470873809
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Amish Grace: How Forgiveness Transcended Tragedy
September 21, 2007, Jossey-Bass
Hardcover
in English
0787997617 9780787997618
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Amish grace: how forgiveness transcended tragedy
2007, Jossey-Bass
in English
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0787997617 9780787997618
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July 31, 2019 | Edited by MARC Bot | associate edition with work OL3288768W |
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