The suspect, Natalie Rupnow, who police say killed herself during the rampage, was just 15 — but even more surprisingly, she was a girl. Mass shootings carried out by females are vanishingly rare. Of the 441 mass shootings in the United States from 1966 to 2022, just 4.3% were carried out by women, research from the Rockefeller Institute of Government, a think tank, shows. The shooting took place during a hearing over her planned eviction from a property on tribal lands. “Even when mass shootings involve neighbors, strangers, and police, women and children overwhelmingly pay the price,” the study said.

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