MADISON, Wis. — Extra particulars are being realized concerning the teenager who allegedly opened fireplace at a Christian faculty in Wisconsin on Monday.
Natalie Rupnow glided by Samantha.
Now, new particulars are being revealed about her dad and mom’ relationship.
Police in Madison, Wisconsin Wednesday afternoon are nonetheless focusing investigative consideration on the household dwelling the place alleged 15-year-old faculty shooter Rupnow lived along with her father.
And authorities are inspecting her dwelling life. Her dad and mom divorced twice.
And they’re nonetheless making an attempt to find out whether or not a web based declaration in her identify was really written by her.
“It will shock me if she bought the gun from anyplace however the dwelling,” mentioned Steve Moore, a former FBI supervisory particular agent.
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With electronics and different potential proof collected on the household dwelling, police Wednesday afternoon proceed to say that the shooter’s dad and mom are absolutely cooperative.
However, up to now, they haven’t introduced a motive, solely suggesting there could possibly be a mix of motives.
A six-page proclamation that has been circulating on social media since instantly after the lethal assault on Monday would appear to reply many questions on motive and {the teenager}’s underlying emotional struggles, whether it is authentic.
There proceed to be questions concerning the authenticity of the pronouncement, and police are lower than sure.
“We all know a doc has been extensively shared on social media. Presently, we can not confirm its authenticity. We now have detectives working right now to find out the place this doc originated and who really shared it on-line. Presently, we can not confirm the doc. We ask that you just not share the doc or unfold any info which may be false,” police mentioned.
Some images are verified. One was first reported Tuesday by the ABC7 Chicago I-Group, exhibiting {the teenager} skeet taking pictures at a Madison-area gun membership the household had just lately joined.
Specialists level to the T-shirt worn by the teenager, that includes a band idolized by the Columbine shooters in 1999.
“If we discover that this T-shirt is an expression of an curiosity in, and possibly analysis of these faculty shooters, that tells us so much about what she was pondering,” mentioned Andrew McCabe, a CNN senior legislation enforcement analyst and former deputy director of the FBI.
“That would have been how she felt about being in a brand new faculty, her personal self-image, it’s extremely seemingly that she was going by melancholy,” mentioned Mary Ellen O’Toole, a former FBI senior profiler and particular agent.
Divorce courtroom data obtained by the I-Group reveal a “turbulent dwelling life,” with a number of parental divorces and marriages, remedy and shifting custody preparations. Monday’s lethal taking pictures at Considerable Life Christian College left two folks lifeless, six wounded and extra lives eternally impacted.
“My nephew may hear our bodies hitting the ground and nice niece throughout the corridor may hear gunshots,” mentioned Rep. Jerry O’Connor, a Republican Wisconsin state assemblyman.
Police in Madison haven’t held a information briefing Wednesday, and say there will not be any public bulletins except occasions warrant that.
High gadgets for authorities to determine embrace how Rupnow obtained the 9mm pistol and from whom; whether or not it was authorized; if anybody helped her with the plot and even knew about it; and if that on-line declaration is bona fide.
There are nonetheless a minimum of two folks hospitalized in essential situation.
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