Amish Shooting Transcripts

The Lancaster County (Penn.) district attorney has released transcripts of four phone calls made in connection with the murders of five girls at an Amish school last week. Three of the calls are answered initially by a dispatcher at the Lancaster County 911 center, and one was a call-back when the original call was disconnected. The county dispatcher tried to transfer the first call to the state police, which has jurisdiction where the shootings occurred. During the call from gunman Charles Roberts, he told the dispatcher to have state police move away from the school, not to transfer him to the state police. “No, you tell them and that’s it. Right now or they’re dead, in two seconds.” Roberts hung up just after delivering his message, and police say he began shooting moments later. Three minutes after his call, Roberts’ his wife called to tell a dispatcher he had called her, saying he “wasn’t coming home.” Read the transcript here.