The Town Of Paradise
- population in June 2007=1086
- 51% female, 49% Male
- median resident age = 37.2
- 96.6% white, 1.8% black, 1.1% Hispanic
- cost of living is 92.2 (USA is 100)
- population density is 959 people per square mile (below USA average)
- most common industry for men there is construction (23%), and for women is accommodation and food industry (24%)
- 10 schools in paradise, 3 of them amish. most students in one school is 129, lowest is 24
- aged between 6-13
- 5 killed, others were bound and some critically injured
- 26 students in the school, 11 of them girls
- the 5 killed were Naomi Rose Ebersole, 7; Anna Mae Stoltzfus,12; Marian Fisher, 13; Mary Liz Miller, 8 and her sister Lena Miller, 7.
- the day after another 6 year old was in critical condition and a 13 year old had been upgraded from critical to serious condition.
- he worked driving a commercial milk truck and collecting milk from Amish farms
- he was not Amish himself
- No criminal record
- had 3 children
- was aged 32
- when wife called him after finding the suicide notes, and just before the shooting, he told her "that he was acting out to achieve revenge for something that happened 20 years ago".
- it was later revealed that in the note to his wife he had admitted molesting two of their relatives that had been aged 3 and 5 at the time, and he had felt the need to do it again.
- people believe that he went to the school with the aim to molest the girls he held hostage, as KY jelly, a lubricant, was found in the back of his van.
- before making his way to the school, he finished his shift at 3am and had taken his 3 children to go and catch their school bus
- at the school he instructed the 15 boys and the 3 adults to leave
- there was no proof that he chose the school because it was Amish, people believe that it was just because there was little security there.
- he shot his victims and as the police were climbing through the window, he shot himself.
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