The 15-year-old who shot up a Wisconsin Christian college killed a substitute instructor who was overlaying for an additional educator who had gone on trip this week, based on a father or mother.
Natalie Rupnow gunned down the substitute, one other teenager and wounded 5 others earlier than taking her personal life in a mass capturing on the Plentiful Life Christian Faculty in Madison on Tuesday.
The substitute instructor was operating a research corridor for college kids when Rupnow barged in and began pulling the set off, Lyndsay O’Connor, whose daughter and son attend the Plentiful Life Christian Academy in Madison, instructed Wisconsin Proper Now.
“The instructor died defending her class. Many extra lives might have been taken. She (Rupnow) despatched off a number of rounds,” she stated.
The teenager shooter “was very a lot to herself” and was recognized for carrying “a collared shirt with a tie, denims, and fight boots” to highschool, the mother stated.
Rupnow “weirded out” her daughter, Mackynzie, who had a messy locker subsequent to Rupnow’s, “however she determined to be good to her a month into college and to [began] speaking to her,” O’Connor stated.
Rupnow was recognized to her classmates as Samantha or Sam and frequently “pounded vitality drinks.”
She was described by O’Connor as an “odd model of preppie in a method” whose group of mates would costume up in shirts and ties.
The father or mother added that Rupnow didn’t have many mates and was “very remoted.”
The killer had additionally appeared to have a troubled residence life, and was always texting together with her boyfriend, who she stated she had met over the web and was from Germany, the mom stated.
“She died a damaged woman. She died unheard, and he or she discovered solace in a bunch of people that didn’t promote goodness,” O’Connor stated.
She instructed folks she needed to go to the nurse earlier than the capturing — nevertheless it’s not clear if she ever did, O’Connor added.
Rupnow opened fireplace with a handgun contained in the Ok-12 college round 11 a.m., killing the substitute instructor and one other teenager.
Six others — 5 college students and one other instructor — have been additionally wounded.
Two of these college students are clinging to life within the hospital, officers stated.
Authorities haven’t but recognized the victims.
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