CNN —Police have identified the shooter in Monday’s attack on a Madison, Wisconsin, private Christian school as a 15-year-old female student, as they investigate the latest school shooting to devastate an American community, claiming the lives of a staff member and another student.
Natalie Rupnow – who went by the name “Samantha,” Madison Police Chief Shon Barnes said – was found dead when officers responded to Abundant Life Christian School.
Evidence suggests the shooter died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, Barnes said at a news conference late Monday.
It’s unclear whether the shooter’s parents owned or possessed the gun used in the shooting, Barnes told CNN.
Two such cases followed school shootings at an Oxford, Michigan, high school in 2021 and a Winder, Georgia, high school in September.
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