Authorities have identified student Natalie Rupnow, 15as the perpetrator of the shooting at a Christian school in Madison (Wisconsin, USA) in which three people died, including the aggressor, the police reported this Monday.
The suspect shot herself and was pronounced dead on the way to the hospital, police chief Shon Barnes detailed in a press conference, who had reported earlier that, upon arriving at the Abundant Life school, shortly before 11:00 am local time (5:00 p.m. GMT), they found “multiple victims injured by firearms.”
Early reports indicate that the teenager used the online name ‘Sam’ or ‘Samantha’ and has advocated for the extermination of all menfrom babies to the elderly.
In addition to the three dead, another teenage student and a teacher – along with the attacker -, at least six people were injuredsome seriously who were transferred to hospitals, according to authorities.
Regarding the injured, Barnes said that there are two students in critical condition and that there is fear for his life, and four other people have minor injuries.
The Abundant Life school, which is private and has almost 400 students at all levels of education from preschool to high school, asked its followers for prayers on Facebook.
For her part, the mayor of Madison, Satya Rhodes-Conway, who appeared in the afternoon, called for “doing things better in the country and in society to avoid gun violence“, and made a mental health telephone number available to the public.
The United States has become accustomed to living with school massacres without effective measures having been approved at the federal level to prevent them.
Twenty-six students and teachers were killed in a shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut in 2002; In 2022, 21 died at an institute in Uvalde (Texas); or in 2018, in Parkland (Florida), the death toll was 17.