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Today in History: Gunman kills five Amish girls, then commits suicide
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- On October 2 2006, 32-year-old Charles Carl Roberts IV entered the West Nickel Mines one-room school in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania, took ten Amish girls hostage, opened fire, killing six and wounding four before turning the gun on himself. The Amish community’s response of forgiveness received widespread media coverage.