A 15-year-old student, Natalie Rupnow, opened fire at Abundant Life Christian School in Wisconsin, killing a teacher and another student before taking her own life. Authorities are investigating the motive behind the shooting.
Natalie Rupnow, who also went by Samantha, died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound after police say she opened fire in a study hall classroom at Abundant Life Christian School. The academy’s tight-knit community was still stunned Tuesday, grieving the student and teacher who were killed and searching for answers to explain the latest act of violence to strike an American campus.
Police have released few details about Rupnow beyond her name, and they said they were investigating a possible motive behind the shooting. With much still unknown, a Washington Post review of court records points to an unsettled childhood for Rupnow, whose parents’ custody agreements sometimes forced her to move between their homes every two or three days. “There are always signs of a school shooting before it occurred,” Madison Police Chief Shon Barnes said at a Tuesday news conference, where he asked the public for patience as authorities investigated Rupnow’s social media activity and state of mind leading up to the rampage. The teen is one of just nine female school shooters in the last 25 years, according to a database maintained by The Post. She is also among the younger recent shooters: Just over a month removed from her 15th birthday, she was about a year younger than the median age of school shooters. And the violence unfolded at a small K-12 school with a religious affiliation, an uncommon site for such incidents, researchers sa
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