Roberts replied: ``Two seconds, that’s it.″ He then hung up, before police could have him talk to a negotiator.Īs a backup, police were readying their shields and weapons to break into the school.

The dispatcher asked Roberts to stay on the phone so he could be transferred to state police. ``I just took, uh, ten girls hostage and I want everybody off the property or, or else,″ Roberts told the 911 dispatcher. 2 shooting _ including Roberts’ call a nearly three-minute call from his wife, who had talked to him by phone and found his suicide notes and one from a farmer calling on behalf of the Amish teacher. The 911 center received four initial calls about the Oct.

The 911 transcripts were released in response to a Right-to-Know request filed by The Associated Press. ``He clearly did not give the police any opportunity to get off the property,″ said Lancaster County District Attorney Don Totaro, who did not release the actual audiotapes to avoid further traumatizing the Amish community and Roberts’ family. ``Don’t try to talk me out of it, get ’em all off the property now,″ Roberts told a Lancaster County dispatcher in a calm, flat voice, his only contact with police.īefore authorities could react, he hung up and started shooting inside the West Nickel Mines Amish School, killing five girls and wounding five others before killing himself. (AP) _ The Amish schoolhouse gunman opened fire on his 10 hostages just moments after demanding authorities get off the property, giving state troopers no time to try to save the girls, according to investigators and 911 transcripts released Tuesday.Ĭharles Carl Roberts IV threatened to kill the children ``in two seconds″ during a 70-second call to a 911 dispatcher.

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