Video: 'Nickel Mines Amish School Shooting: 5 Years Later'

(Monday, October 2, 2006, c. 10:25 – c. 11:07 a.m. EDT; during the West Nickel Mines School shooting) — A heavily armed milk truck driver stormed a one-room Amish schoolhouse in rural Lancaster County today, bounding hostages and opening fire on a row of young girls, leaving five children dead and five others critically wounded before turning the gun on himself. Continue reading Five dead after gunman takes hostages at Pennsylvania Amish schoolhouse 20 years ago this hour (Oct 2 2006) →