Charles Carl Roberts

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Lifetime Movie Network will explore the aftermath of the 2006 schoolhouse shooting in the Amish community of Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania, with "Amish Grace," a television movie starring Kimberly Williams-Paisley.Matt Letscher and Tammy Blanchard co-star in the film based on accounts of the event and the book "Amish Grace: How Forgiveness Transcended Tragedy" by Donald Kraybill, Steven Nolt and David Weaver-Zercher.On October 2, 2006, a gunman walked into a...Read Full Story

ABC Local reports that Charles Carl Roberts, the shooter in the Amish school shooting, was a father and husband.     Charles Roberts apparently called his wife from a cell phone during the school shooting.  He said that he was "acting out in revenge for something that happened 20 years ago," State Police Commissioner Jeffrey B. Miller said.   "It seems as though he wanted to attack young, female victims."      Linked from http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=local&id=4620763...Read Full Story

The Charles Carl Roberts shooting occurred before 11 am in the farming town of Nickle Mines, Lancaster County, in a 27-student rural one-room school house that housed Grades 1 to 8.   The school is run by the Amish of Pennsylvania.     The school is located near Nickel Mines, PA, a tiny village halfway between  downtown Philadelphia and Harrisburg.Read Full Story

Trayvon Martin and 7 Black Men Who Should Be Alive TodayPolitic365He is on drugs or something,” 911 DISPATCHER: “Are you following him,” the 911 dispatcher asks. 911 DISPATCHER: “OK – you don't need to do that. The 911 tapes of Zimmerman's call to police shortly before he killed teenager Trayvon Martin on February 26 ...Read Full Story

The Associated Press The Associated Press NICKEL MINES, Pa. The families of the victims of a shooting inside an Amish school in central Pennsylvania plan no events to mark the fifth anniversary of the deadly attack. A statement released Monday by the members of the Amish community thanks the public for the support the families have received since a gunman barricaded himself inside the school in Nickel Mines, then shot 10 girls before killing himself. Five Amish girls were...Read Full Story