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Charles Carl Roberts enters Amish school and fatally shoots five children

A photograph of an Amish Crossing road sign in America
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The reason that the son of a policeman and a Christian worker went into the school of a religion that espouses truth, to fatally shoot five children, died with Charles Roberts when he turned the gun on himself.

This father of three had helped his wife prepare his children for school, as they did every day, but on this morning, he drove to the Amish school with four guns, two knives and around 600 rounds of ammunition.

His other paraphernalia suggested he entered the school to have sex, as well as to kill...