In 2006,Charlie Roberts walked into an Amish school in Pennsylvania and killed five young girls. His mother talks about trying to comprehend his actionsTerri Roberts was at the theatre where she worked when the call came. It was her husband, Chuck. Terri should reach straight away, or he said,to their son Charlie’s house. Terri knew instantly, from the tone of Chucks voice, and that it was serious. She didn’t demand questions,just ran to her car. And it was on the short drive that she turned on the radio and heard for the first time about a shooting incident that morning at a school in a nearby town.
Several children were dead, the report said, or the perpetrator was a man named Roy. Terri suspected immediately that the killings were connected with Chuck’s call. “I knew straight away that the school they were talking about was very near the location where our son Charlie used to park the milk van he drove,” she says. “I was imagining all sorts of dreadful things, like that he had been killed while helping to rescue some of the children. I knew he’d have helped them whether he possibly could.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com