Natalie ‘Samantha’ Rupnow, the 15-year-old, who opened fire at the Abundant Life Christian School in Wisconsin killing a teacher and a student was new to the school and joined only four months ago indicating that she probably did not have any grudge against the school specifically. The alleged manifesto, however, spoke about her being picked on, bullied, and ignored in school which might also refer to other schools she attended.
At this school, Rupnow was in her first semester. The school was working with her family on attendance, but teachers had no significant concerns, the school authorities said.
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Natalie Rupnow had two guns with her when she opened fire. She used a handgun to carry out the attack after which she shot herself. The other gun was not used in the attack.- Natalie Rupnow’s parents — Jeff Rupnow and Melissa Rupnow — may face criminal charges but the police did not comment on it. Investigators are looking at if the parents were negligent.
- Rupnow’s parents have been married to each other and divorced from each other twice which resulted in a very chaotic custody battle with Natalie switching between her mother and father.
- Natalie was in therapy over her turbulent family life. Both her parents had other children from other partners.
- Natalie’s gun attack lasted for just about eight minutes.
- Madison Police Chief Shon Barnes said the motive appears to be a combination of factors.
- FBI detained Alexander Paffendorf, a 20-year-old man in California because he was in connection with Natalie Rupnow. Paffendorf admitted to discussing plans with Rupnow to arm himself with explosives and target a government building.
- A TikTok account believed to belong to Natalie Rupnow has been deleted after the shooting. The account posted a range of very generic white supremacist and antisemitic memes. ABC News reported that Rupnow also had an X account through which she shared footage of a 2015 stabbing at a school in Sweden and a video of a person killing themselves at a shooting range.