Newsman: Two people were killed and several others were wounded in a shooting at a private Christian school in Madison, Wisconsin, on Monday that also left the suspected shooter dead, officials said. At least six people were hurt in the shooting at Abundant Life Christian School, authorities said, with injuries ranging from minor to life-threatening.
The shooting was confined to a classroom where study hall with students from several different grades was being held, police said.
Officers responded to the school, located at 4901 East Buckeye Road, around 11 a.m. following a 911 call from a second grade teacher reporting the shooting. (Police initially said the 911 call came from a second grader, but then corrected that Tuesday to say it was a teacher who called.)
Madison Chief of Police Shon F. Barnes said Monday night ,the shooter was identified by police as 15-year-old Natalie Rupnow. Rupnow was a student at the school and went by Samantha.
Barnes said Rupnow appears to have died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound and was pronounced dead while being taken to the hospital.
“They found the person who they believe was responsible, who was down, deceased,” he said earlier in the day of how the shooter was discovered.
Authorities said the suspected shooter was dead by the time officers arrived, and no police fired their weapons.
He said the shooter’s motivation is not yet known. Barnes also could not say how the shooter obtained a gun, but that it would be part of the investigation.
“What we do know is that this child obviously was very troubled. There’s usually some type of warning signs that we all may have missed and so we have to understand that we have to come together as a community,” Barnes said in an interview with “CBS Mornings” on Tuesday. “We have to wrap our arms around our children and understand what’s going on in their lives.”
Police have made contact with the suspected shooter’s family, Barnes said, and the family was cooperating with police.
