The 15-year-old who shot up a Wisconsin Christian faculty killed a substitute trainer who was protecting for one more educator who had gone on trip this week, based on a mum or dad.
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 Considerable Life Christian Faculty in Madison on Tuesday.
The substitute trainer 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 varsity, advised Wisconsin Proper Now.
“The teacher died protecting her class. Many more lives could have been taken. She (Rupnow) sent off multiple rounds,” she stated.
The teenager shooter “was very much to herself” and was recognized for carrying “a collared shirt with a tie, jeans, and combat boots” to highschool, the mother stated.
Rupnow “weirded out” her daughter, Mackynzie, who had a messy locker subsequent to Rupnow’s, “but she decided to be nice to her a month into school and to [begin] talking to her,” O’Connor stated.
Rupnow was recognized to her classmates as Samantha or Sam and recurrently “pounded energy drinks.”
She was described by O’Connor as an “odd version of preppie in a way” whose group of buddies would costume up in shirts and ties.
The mum or dad added that Rupnow didn’t have many buddies and was “very isolated.”
The killer had additionally appeared to have a troubled residence life, and was always texting together with her boyfriend, whom she stated she had met over the web and was from Germany, the mom stated.
“She died a broken girl. She died unheard, and she found solace in a bunch of people who didn’t promote goodness,” O’Connor stated.
She advised folks she needed to go to the nurse earlier than the capturing — but it surely’s not clear if she ever did, O’Connor added.
Rupnow opened fireplace with a handgun contained in the Ok-12 faculty round 11 a.m., killing the substitute trainer and one other teenager.
Six others — 5 college students and one other trainer — had been additionally wounded.
Two of these college students are clinging to life within the hospital, officers stated.
Authorities haven’t but recognized the victims.
