Man kills children and himself in Amish school
The first thing Charles Carl Roberts IV did when he walked into the one-room Amish schoolhouse, police said, was to show the children his semiautomatic pistol. He was talking, but he didn’t make sense. “Have you seen anything like this?” police say he asked. “Can you help me find it?” Roberts let all 15 boys leave. A pregnant woman, too. Three adults were allowed to escape with their infant children. He bound the girls with wire and plastic ties and lined them up at the blackboard. He called his wife to say that he wouldn’t be coming home, that he loved her. And then he began to shoot the girls. A scene of carnage erupted in pastoral Lancaster County about 11 a.m. yesterday as a lone gunman with a 20-year-old grievance took his revenge on a room full of pupils at the West Nickel Mines Amish School, then turned the …