PA - Five girls dead, 5 injured in Amish school shooting, 2 Oct 2006

[christine2448]

Four of the wounded girls have returned home. One remains in the hospital but is "making progress":

http://local.lancasteronline.com/4/27119

Thanks for the update.

 

[luthersmama]

Three of the survivors have returned to school. One is at home, one remains in the hospital.

http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/16060666.htm

 

[PSUfan]

Just an update from my local papers, not so recent, but the latest. The new school is completed.

http://ap.lancasteronline.com/4/amish_school_reopening

Four of the five have returned to school. The fifth, a 6-year-old, needs a feeding tube and is not able to communicate

Also, Roberts widow has plans to remarry. I hope her new family is happy and healing.
http://local.lancasteronline.com/4/202626

Published: Apr 06, 2007 2:33 PM EST
LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. - Marie Roberts, widow of the Georgetown man who killed five young Amish girls in a Nickel Mines schoolhouse last October, plans to remarry.

 

[capps]

Just an update from my local papers, not so recent, but the latest. The new school is completed.

http://ap.lancasteronline.com/4/amish_school_reopening




Also, Roberts widow has plans to remarry. I hope her new family is happy and healing.
http://local.lancasteronline.com/4/202626

I read an article about Marie Roberts remarrying.Of course I wish her all the happiness she deserves.

But I must say,I was surprised. It has been only six months since her whole life has been turned upside down,losing a husband whom she loved,the awful killings that he committed,trying to keep normalcy for her small children,and moving from one home to another. According to the article,it said her fiance brought blankets for her children,just weeks after the tragedy,and they immediately were attracted to each other.They plan to marry in October.

Heck,I must be a very weak woman,because it would take me six months,just to get my head around all that just happened,let alone have the mindset to be attracted to another. I'm surprised they plan to get married in October,the first anniversary of the killing.

Again,this is just my opinion,and I do wish her the best in life,but the timing did catch me off guard.

 

[PSUfan]

I read an article about Marie Roberts remarrying.Of course I wish her all the happiness she deserves.

But I must say,I was surprised. It has been only six months since her whole life has been turned upside down,losing a husband whom she loved,the awful killings that he committed,trying to keep normalcy for her small children,and moving from one home to another. According to the article,it said her fiance brought blankets for her children,just weeks after the tragedy,and they immediately were attracted to each other.They plan to marry in October.

Heck,I must be a very weak woman,because it would take me six months,just to get my head around all that just happened,let alone have the mindset to be attracted to another. I'm surprised they plan to get married in October,the first anniversary of the killing.

Again,this is just my opinion,and I do wish her the best in life,but the timing did catch me off guard.

I was very surprised as well. I would guess that a therapist would advice against this, while in such an emotional state, but, maybe this is meant to be. I sure hope she is making the right decision, and that her children can put the past behind them.

At least they can all make a name change.

 

[ember]

Now this is what you call forgiveness...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20761374/?gt1=10357


The Amish set an incredible example of which I wish we could all live by.
I especially liked this quote:

"It is understood that hostility destroys community,"

So simple and true.


Sending well wishes for their continued healing.

 

[Mygirlsadie]

Wow! What wonderful people they are! I wish sometimes I could be like that...I can't be though because I already know if anyone ever hurt one of my kids the only thing I would or could think about doing is beating the snot out of the person...the Amish don't have that mindset and it is probably why they live a beautiful peaceful forgiving lifestyle.

 

[Dena]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071002...ol_shooting;_ylt=AmTl47ACCleVT.BBWhFVOuBH2ocA

SNIP

NICKEL MINES, Pa. - Whoops from a children's baseball game and the singing of hymns rang in the air on the eve of the first anniversary of one of the Amish community's worst moments.

In keeping with Amish custom, no public observances were planned for Tuesday's anniversary, although local Amish families held a private gathering on Monday to mark the occasion.

West Nickel Mines Amish School, the scene of a gunman's massacre that left five girls dead and five others wounded one year ago, has long since been razed and replaced with overgrown pasture, in part to prevent it from being treated as some sort of shrine or becoming a morbid tourist attraction.

More at link.

 

[Hopeful One]

Wow, it's been a year already. Thanks for pointing this out. My prayers go out to them.

 

[philamena]

May those killed during this terrible shooting, rest in peace.

 

[Marthatex]

How quickly we forget. They handled it with such Grace.

 

[White Rain]

It really doesn't seem that long! RIP victims!

 

[reb]

<They handled it with such Grace.>

They most certainly did,, Marthatex.

To tear down the school and just let it remain as a pasture.. I think that was a VERY wise move on their part.. knowing how annoying 'curious' people can be. It's bad enough the Amish are already (often) treated like a tourist attraction.
I also am not a fan of making a memorial or shrine for every tragedy that comes along. A big part of healing (in my book) is not being reminded of something over and over again. Besides,, eventually people would just end up surrounded by memorials reminding us of death and destruction everywhere.. it's just too much.

 

[CaliKid]

They did the right thing. Bless the families who lost their children.

 

[Blondie in Spokane]

"They had forgiven Charlie and were extending grace and love to our family': Amish school shooter's wife recounts the moving moment when family of her husband's victims offered her their support"

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ds-victims-offered-support.html#ixzz2hK2oWc8a

 

[Bounceycat]

An Amish woman dies 18 years after being severely injured in a deadly schoolhouse shooting

The woman was severely injured in 2006 when a gunman attacked a one-room Amish schoolhouse in Pennsylvania.

www.wnep.com

A woman who was severely injured when a gunman killed five girls and wounded her and four other girls during an attack on their one-room Amish schoolhouse in Pennsylvania has died 18 years later, a funeral director said Thursday.

Rosanna S. King, 23, died at her home on Tuesday and a funeral is planned at her home in the farming community of Paradise on Friday.

Rosanna King, who belonged to an Old Order Amish Church community, was 6 years old at the time and had been considered the most severely injured survivor. She had been shot in the head and the attack left her unable to talk and needing a tube to be fed. She was dependent on others for personal care and mobility.

A year afterward, her family said in a statement she was able to recognize family members, smiled a lot and had limited physical movement. They said in 2007 that “the hardest part has been to see her suffer.”