 On October 2, 2006, the community became the subject of national media attention after a lone gunman, identified as Charles Carl Roberts IV, took ten girls hostage for nearly an hour at a one-room Amish schoolhouse serving the community.He then shot all ten hostages, killing five of them, and later committed suicide as responding police officers tried to breach the schoolhouse.The emphasis on forgiveness and reconciliation in the response of the Amish community became a topic of wide discussion in numerous national media outlets.