Natalie Rupnow, the 12-year-old who carried out the mass shooting at Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wisconsin, was in therapy due to the instability of her family life.
Natalie Rupnow, who died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound after the deadly mass shooting at Abundant Life Christian School in Madison on Monday, had been in therapy over her troubled home life with her parents — who repeatedly divorced and remarried, court records show. Natalie, who recently started using the first name Samantha, was at times yanked between her parents’ homes every two or three days when they were separated.
Her mother and father, Mellissa and Jeff Rupnow, first married in 2011, two years after they had Natalie. They divorced in 2014 and shared custody of Natalie, whom they agreed would live primarily with her mother. The couple then remarried three years later in 2017 — just to get divorced for a second time another three years after that, in 2020. This time, they more evenly split custody of their daughter, with Natalie spending two days with her father, then two days with her mother, followed by three days with her father again in a schedule that would alternate weekly. A judge granted the divorce a month later but noted that “parties admonished concerning remarriage,” according to court documents. In July 2022, a mediator ruled that the couple would again share custody of Natalie but she would live primarily with her father. By that time, Natalie, just 12 years old, was going to therapy sessions which were meant to help determine which parent she would spend her weeks with, according to court records. Before Natalie was born, her mom had been married and divorced to a different man, and also had a daughter with a man she never married. Natalie’s step-sister, now 20, was raised by other legal guardians, the documents show
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