警方正在调查一名15岁女孩的网络足迹用手枪开火在她位于威斯康星州麦迪逊的基督教学校,杀害了一名教师和另一名学生。
嫌疑犯,娜塔莉·鲁普诺,她叫萨曼莎警方称,他死于自己造成的枪伤。
警方说,周一早上,丰盛生命基督教学校的枪击事件发生在一个自习室的教室里,“挤满了来自多个年级的学生”。
六个人受伤了。两名学生伤势严重,有生命危险,而三名学生和一名教师则没有生命危险。
与此同时,麦迪逊警察局长肖恩·巴恩斯(Shon Barnes)在新闻发布会上表示,麦迪逊大都会学区的许多学校周二“遭到了通常被称为拍打的虚假威胁”。
巴恩斯说,警方正在调查,他指出,当局认为目前没有任何威胁。
“制造虚假威胁是一种犯罪,我们正在与地区检察官合作,”他说。
巴恩斯说警方仍在努力确定开枪的动机并暗示有多种因素。
他说,警方正在与学生交谈,以确定欺凌是否是一个因素。
“在这次事件中,每个人都是目标,每个人都面临同样的危险,”巴恩斯补充道。
巴恩斯周二告诉ABC新闻,Rupnow的父母正在配合调查。
“他们很合作。尽管发生了这场悲剧,他们还是失去了一个孩子。他们仍然失去了一个家庭成员,”巴恩斯说。
“可以肯定的是,他们可能比任何人都有更多的问题,因为他们认识她,”他说。"他们和她住在一起,所以我们想从他们那里了解一下她是个什么样的孩子。"
在周二的新闻发布会上,警察局长敦促任何认识她的人或了解她的感受的人拨打麦迪逊地区犯罪制止者的电话608-266-6014。
周二晚上,州议会大厦为受害者举行了烛光守夜活动。
“昨天,麦迪逊社区经历了一场可怕和创伤性的事件,”麦迪逊市长萨提亚·罗兹-康威在守夜活动中说。“我们永远不会一样,但我们会度过难关。我们会互相依靠,互相照顾,一起度过难关。”
受害者的身份尚未公开。罗兹-康威在新闻发布会上告诉记者,他们尊重受害者家属的隐私,并将“在可能的时候分享我们所能分享的,而不是在此之前。”
“让他们悲伤吧。让他们恢复。让他们痊愈,”她说。
从幼儿园到12年级的学生都在基督教学校上学。
“我在走廊上,我正从鞋子换到靴子去吃午饭,因为我之后要休息,但后来我听到了枪声和尖叫声,”一名二年级的女孩告诉芝加哥ABC电视台WLS站。
詹姆斯·史密斯告诉ABC新闻,当枪声在两个教室外响起时,他17岁的女儿正在上物理课。她没有受伤。
史密斯说,丰盛人生基督教学校欢迎那些可能在其他学校受到欺负或经历过困难的学生。
“作为一所学校,我们希望帮助那些有困难的人,能够为他们提供一个安全的成长空间,同时为我们其他学生提供一个安全的空间,”他说。
史密斯还说,大流行后,随着许多家长寻求公立学校的替代方案,学校的人数急剧增长。
Abundant Life Christian School shooting latest: Madison schools report 'false threats'
Police are investigating the online footprint of the 15-year-old girl who allegedlyopened fire with a handgunat her Madison, Wisconsin, Christian school, killing a teacher and another student.
The suspect,Natalie Rupnow, who went by Samantha, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, police said.
The Monday morning shooting at Abundant Life Christian School unfolded inside a classroom during a study hall "full of students from multiple grade levels," police said.
Six people were hurt. Two students remain in critical condition with life-threatening injuries while three students and a teacher suffered non-life-threatening injuries.
Meanwhile, numerous schools in the Madison Metropolitan School District "were targeted by false threats often known as swatting" on Tuesday, Madison Police Chief Shon Barnes said at a news conference.
Police are investigating, Barnes said, and he noted authorities do not believe there are any current threats.
"Making false threats is a crime, and we are working with the district attorney," he said.
Barnes said police are still working toestablish a motive for the shootingand suggested there were multiple factors.
Police are talking to students to determine if bullying was a factor, he said.
"Everyone was targeted in this incident and everyone was put in equal danger," Barnes added.
Rupnow's parents are cooperating with the investigation, Barnes told ABC News on Tuesday.
"They were cooperative. Despite this tragedy, they still lost a child. They still lost a member of their family," Barnes said.
"It is certain that they have probably more questions than anyone because they knew her," he said. "They lived with her and so we wanted to get an account from them of what kind of child she was."
At Tuesday's news conference, the police chief urged anyone who knew her or had insights into her feelings to call Madison Area Crime Stoppers at 608-266-6014.
A candlelight vigil was held Tuesday night at the state capitol for the victims.
"Yesterday, the Madison community experienced a terrible and traumatic event," Madison Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway said at the vigil. "We will never be the same, but we will get through this. And we will get through this together by relying on each other and taking care of each other."
The victims have not been publicly identified. Rhodes-Conway told reporters during the news conference that they are respecting the privacy of the victims' families and will "share what we can when we can and not before that."
"Let them grieve. Let them recover. Let them heal," she said.
Students in kindergarten through 12th grade attend the Christian school.
"I was in the hallway, and I was changing from my shoes to my boots to go to lunch because I have recess after, but then I heard the shooting and screams," a girl in second-grade told Chicago ABC station WLS.
James Smith told ABC News his 17-year-old daughter was in physics class at the time gunshots rang out two classrooms away. She wasn't hurt.
Smith said Abundant Life Christian School welcomes students who may have been bullied or had a tough time at other schools.
"We, as a school, desire to help those who are having troubles, to be able to provide a safe space for them to grow, at the same time balance across a safe space for the rest of our student body," he said.
Smith also said the school's population grew dramatically post-pandemic as many parents sought an alternative to public schools.