On the morning of Monday, December 16, 15-year-old Natalie “Samantha” Rupnow opened fire in a classroom at Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wisconsin, killing two people and injuring six others. to turn his weapon against her.
Once again, horror struck young people in the heart, in the United States, on Monday, December 16. Shortly before 11 a.m., a middle school student at Abundant Life Christian School, located in Madison, Wisconsin, opened fire in her school. The 15-year-old girl, Natalie “Samantha” Rupnow, was armed with a 9mm handgun and shot two teachers, one fatally, and six middle school students, one fatally. Two teenagers are still fighting for their lives.
According to the “New York Post”, another student at this 400-seat establishment called 911, the emergency number in the United States, and the police arrived “in less than three minutes”. But Natalie Rupnow had already turned the gun on herself, fatally wounding herself, ABC News indicates. The teenager died in the ambulance. On social networks, a manifesto defending “hateful and angry” opinions is circulating and is identified as belonging to him, but investigators refuse, for the moment, to comment on the identity of its author.
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Investigators are first trying to understand how the 15-year-old obtained her handgun and to do this, they are currently questioning Natalie Rupnow's parents, who are “cooperative”. “Why did this happen?” What do we know? What was the motivation? I don't know. But I can tell you one thing: our investigators are working hard to find as many answers as possible so that we can prevent these things from happening, not only in this community, but in other communities across our country,” insisted the Madison Police Chief Shon Barnes at a press conference.
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Transgender?
In addition to this manifesto, a theory according to which Natalie Rupnow is transgender is also circulating on social networks, but investigators refused to comment on these allegations, recalling that the priority was not there. “I don't think what happened today had anything to do with how she or he or they might have wanted to identify themselves,” said Shon Barnes.
US President Joe Biden has called for gun control measures. “From Newtown to Uvalde, from Parkland to Madison, and so many other shootings that receive no attention, it is unacceptable that we are unable to protect our children from this scourge of gun violence. We cannot continue to accept it as something normal,” he said in a statement. “Every child deserves to feel safe in their classroom. Students across the country should be learning to read and write, not hunker down and take cover. »
According to a CNN count, on the 351st day of the year, i.e. December 16, there was 83 mass shootings in schools in the United States, in 2024. A very sad record, which pushes schools to equip themselves with metal detectors (Abundant Life did not have them) and to train staff, teachers and students in the right reflexes to have in the event of an attack.
