A recent mass shooting at a Wisconsin school, carried out by a 15-year-old female suspect, has brought attention to the rarity of women committing such acts. While mass shootings are a horrifyingly common occurrence in the US, they are overwhelmingly perpetrated by men. This case raises questions about the motivations and factors contributing to female-led mass shootings, a phenomenon that remains statistically infrequent.
The fatal shooting of a student and a teacher at a private Christian school in Wisconsin on Monday was laden with shock, even for a nation dulled by the horror of repeated school massacres. The suspect, Natalie Rupnow, who police say killed herself during the rampage, was just 15 — but even more surprisingly, she was a girl. Mass shootings carried out by females are vanishingly rare. Of the 441 mass shootings in the United States from 1966 to 2022, just 4.
3% were carried out by women, research from the Rockefeller Institute of Government, a think tank, shows. According to an open-source database maintained by Mother Jones, there have been just four since 1982, as well as two in which women acted in partnership with a man. In 2006, 44-year-old postal worker Jennifer Sanmarco killed seven people and then herself at a Santa Barbara postal facility, inspired by what she believed was a conspiracy against her. Despite a long history of mental illness — she had been placed on retirement disability leave for psychological reasons in 2003 — she was able to buy a 9 mm Smith & Wesson handgun with no problem after a routine background check. In 2014, former tribal chairwoman Cherie Lash Rhoades, then 44, opened fire and killed four people and critically injured two others at Cedarville Rancheria Tribal Office in the remote Northern California town of Alturas. The shooting took place during a hearing over her planned eviction from a property on tribal lands. The dead included Rhoades’ 50-year-old brother, Rurik Davies, 30-year-old nephew Glenn Calonicco and 19-year-old niece Angel Penn, who was holding her newborn baby when she was shot. The infant was unharmed, a court heard. Rhoades was sentenced to death in 2017 and remains one of the less than 50 women on death row. Rite Aid distribution center worker Snochia Moseley, 26, killed three people and injured three others at her place of work in Aberdeen, Maryland, before killing herself in 2018
MASS SHOOTINGS WOMEN VIOLENCE GUN CONTROL SCHOOL SHOOTINGS
United States Latest News, United States Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Florida detective sentenced to 24 years in prison for sexually exploiting a teenage girlA former Florida detective accused of severely beating a Black man has been sentenced to nearly 25 years in federal prison for sexually exploiting a teenage girl. A judge in Jacksonville sentenced 35-year-old Josue Garriga on Monday.
Read more »
Teenage Girl Kills Teacher, Student in Wisconsin School ShootingA 15-year-old female student opened fire at Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wisconsin, killing a teacher and a student before taking her own life. Six other students were injured.
Read more »
Man, teenage girl shot after bullets flew into Tacoma home from shooting outsideTwo people were sent to the hospital after a shooting broke out in Tacoma Thursday night, Tacoma Police confirmed.
Read more »
Jenna Coleman Investigates a Teenage Girl’s Disappearance in ‘The Jetty’ TrailerArchie Renaux and Jenna Coleman in The Jetty
Read more »
Stranger gives teenage girl cookie with pill inside at McDonald’s in BereaA teenage girl called police at about 9 p.m. Nov. 15 and said that an unidentified man gave her a cookie with a pill inside at McDonald’s, 350 West Bagley.
Read more »
Judge issues rare gag order on Brad Simpson case following first open court appearanceSAN ANTONIO - A gag order has been issued in the criminal case of Brad Simpson, husband of missing Suzanne Simpson, in a surprise decision by Judge Joel Perez.T
Read more »