NICKEL MINES, Pa.-
A fifth child died in a Delaware hospital early Tuesday of wounds from the shootings at an Amish schoolhouse in Lancaster County, police said.
The death toll from the nation’s third school shooting in less than a week rose twice within a matter of hours Tuesday with the deaths of the fifth child at Christiana Hospital in Delaware and the earlier death of a 7-year-old girl at Penn State Children’s Hospital in Hershey.
Five additional children were hospitalized.
Authorities said the gunman, Charles Carl Roberts IV, apparently spurred by a two-decades-old grudge, wrote what authorities described as suicide notes, took guns and ammunition and went to a nearby one-room schoolhouse, where he opened fire on several girls and took his own life, authorities said.
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