PARADISE, Pennsylvania (CNN) — A lone gunman walked into a one-room Amish schoolhouse Monday and opened fire, killing six people, according to initial reports.
The gunman then shot and killed himself, police said.
The shooting took place at Wolf Rock School in Paradise, a school run by the Amish community with about 27 students in grades 1 through 8.
What is happening here?
The attack was the nation’s third deadly school shooting in a week.
On Wednesday, a 53-year-old man entered a high school in Bailey, Colorado, where he held several female students hostage at gunpoint. He shot one girl before killing himself seconds after a SWAT team stormed inside the classroom.
A high school student near Madison, Wisconsin, is suspected of fatally gunning down his principal on Friday, after he was disciplined for carrying tobacco and being bullied.
Meanwhile, here’s another breaking story:
NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nevada (AP) — Two schools were locked down Monday while police searched for a teenager who had been spotted on a high school campus with a gun, authorities said.
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School districts across the country have been especially sensitive to threats after deadly shootings last week at schools in Wisconsin and Colorado.
On Friday, a school principal was gunned down in Cazenovia, Wisconsin, and a 15-year-old student, described as upset over a reprimand, was charged with murder. Just two days earlier, an adult gunman held six girls hostage in a school at Bailey, Colorado, before killing a 16-year-old girl and then himself.
On September 21, three high school seniors in Green Bay, Wisconsin, were charged with conspiracy to commit homicide for allegedly planning to attack a school with guns and bombs.
It’s starting to seem like a daily occurrence, and folks, it’s scaring Polimom!
