NICKEL MINES, Pa. – Members of the community are raising a new Amish schoolhouse a few hundred yards from the spot where a gunman shot five girls to death in October.
The new building will have just one room, like the torn-down school where the massacre took place, but will be more secure, with more sophisticated locks and a location reachable only by a private drive, said John Coldiron, a township official.
The old West Nickel Mines Amish School was torn down using heavy equipment 10 days after milk truck driver Charles Carl Roberts IV shot the girls and committed suicide.
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