On October 2, 2006, a shooting occurred at the West Nickel Mines School, an Amish one-room schoolhouse in the Old Order Amish community of Nickel Mines, a village in Bart Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The gunman took hostages and shot ten girls, killing five, before taking his own life in the schoolhouse.
Dead
Naomi Rose Ebersol, 7, died at the scene, October 2, 2006.
Marian Stoltzfus Fisher, 13, died at the scene, October 2, 2006.[
Anna Mae Stoltzfus, 12, was declared dead on arrival at Lancaster General Hospital in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, October 2, 2006.
Lena Zook Miller, 8, died at Milton S. Hershey Medical Center in Hershey, Pennsylvania, October 3, 2006.
Mary Liz Miller, 8, died at Christiana Hospital in Newark, Delaware, October 3, 2006.
Injured
All of the surviving girls were hospitalized.
Rosanna King, 6
Rachel Ann Stoltzfus, 8
Barbie Fisher, 11
Sarah Ann Stoltzfus, 12
Esther King, 13