NICKEL MINES, Pennsylvania (AP) -- Exactly six months after a tormented milk truck driver shot 10 young Amish students in Pennsylvania, killing five, then killed himself, a new school building will open Monday close to the site of the rampage.

The one-room schoolhouse in will come with a new name -- the New Hope Amish School.

"It's just another part of the closure process, I guess, and a new beginning," said Mike Hart with the Bart Township Fire Department. He met last week with members of the Amish community, a plain-living sect that often shuns modern technology.

The new school -- with more sophisticated locks and a location reachable only by a private drive -- can be seen from the site of the West Nickel Mines Amish School, which was torn down Oct. 12. Ten days earlier, milk truck driver Charles Carl Roberts IV shot 10 girls inside the school, then committed suicide as police closed in.

Four of the five wounded girls have returned to school, but the fifth remains in what Hart called "a comatose-type condition." The 6-year-old girl is fed by a feeding tube and is not able to communicate, he said.

Hart also said Roberts' widow, Marie, and their three children have moved from their home in the village of Georgetown, about a mile (1.6 kilometers) from the shooting, to another community within Lancaster County.

Charles Roberts, apparently tormented by an unconfirmed memory of having molested relatives 20 years earlier, and by the 1997 death of his own infant daughter, shot and killed himself. Amish families attended his burial service.

Hart said the new school, partially made of brick, was funded by donations to the accountability committee, donations made directly to the school board, and by in-kind contributions.

Associate Press