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GEORGETOWN, Pa., Oct. 7 (UPI) -- Amish mourners joined family and friends Saturday for the funeral of the Pennsylvania truck driver who killed five Amish girls before taking his own life.
Charles Carl Roberts IV was laid to rest in the graveyard of the Georgetown United Methodist Church, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported. The cemetery is not far from the school where the shootings took place and the Amish graveyard where his victims are buried.
The Amish who came to the burial gave condolences to Roberts' wife and three children.
"It was deeply moving," said Bruce Porter, a chaplain with a Colorado fire department who was at the service. "It was a display of Christ's love as I've never seen it."
Also on Saturday, local Amish leaders met to discuss the future of the West Nickel Mines School. Mike Hart -- one of two non-Amish members of a board set up to handle donations following the killings -- said the plan is to build a new school in a different location.
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