He said a teacher had to run to a farm house to call police because there wasn't one at the school, in keeping with Amish custom.
Parents refused to fly in planes -- again in keeping with Amish tradition -- and had to be driven to see their children at hospitals, Miller told Today. Some were taken to the wrong hospitals in the confusion, Miller said.
The attack bore similarities to a deadly school shooting last week in Bailey, Colorado, but Miller said he believed the Pennsylvania attack was not a copycat crime.
"I really believe this was about this individual and what was going on inside his head," he said.
Last Friday, a school principal was shot to death in Cazenovia, Wisconsin. A 15-year-old student, described as upset over a reprimand, was charged with murder.
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