“She was a student at the school and the evidence suggests that she died of self-inflicted gunshot wounds,” Barnes told reporters regarding the attacker, according to AFP. According to the New York Post, the police later announced that fifteen-year-old Natalie “Samantha” Rupnow was the attacker. Her alleged manifesto is circulating on social networks, but investigators have not yet been able to verify its authenticity.
Medics pronounced the girl dead on the way to the hospital, the other two victims died on the spot, The New York Times (NYT) wrote. Of the six injured, two students are in critical condition. The injuries of the other three pupils and the teacher are less serious.
The shooting took place at the Abundant Life Christian School in the capital of Wisconsin, Madison. According to data from its website, 390 children attend this educational institution, divided from kindergarten to high school.
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Barnes previously stated that the police were called to the school around 11:00 a.m. local time (6:00 p.m. CET). However, they did not use their weapons, as they found the probable shooter dead when they arrived at the scene. The sheriff initially did not specify the identity and gender of the attacker, the AP agency and CNN television, citing police sources, at one point stated that the shooter was a seventeen-year-old girl. According to earlier information provided by Barnes, she used a nine millimeter pistol.
According to the media, the attacker’s parents are cooperating with the police in the investigation of the tragedy.
A school shooting committed by a girl is rare, the Reuters agency pointed out, according to which women are responsible for only about three percent of mass shootings in the United States.
This year, according to the K-12 database, American schools recorded the second highest number of shootings since 1966, Reuters pointed out. The project records 323 school incidents on its website this year, according to him, only last year was worse with 349 shootings.
President Joe Biden has already stated that American lawmakers cannot stand idly by similar tragedies, which have taken place in the USA. “From Newtown to Uvalde, from Parkland to Madison, to so many shootings that have gone unnoticed, it is unacceptable that we fail to protect our children from this devastating gun violence,” the White House chief said, referring to past mass school shootings. .
Biden’s Democrats have tried several times in the past to significantly tighten the rules for the possession of assault weapons, which are extremely benevolent in the US compared to other Western countries. However, the influential arms lobby, which has supporters especially among Republicans, blocked most of the attempts. Incoming President Donald Trump does not hide the fact that he has very good relations with the organization of gun owners.
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