Madison faculty shootings: Police determine deceased 15-year-old Natalie Rupnow as killer in Madison | EUROtoday

David Hogg, a survivor of the Parkland faculty taking pictures in Florida, mentioned on Monday that the varsity taking pictures in Madison, Wisconsin, reveals “we still haven’t done enough” to cease gun violence in opposition to youngsters.

“We have a lot further to go. Obviously Congress needs to do more to fight these things and prevent them in the first place,” he informed ABC News on Monday.

“What I think about too at the same time are the shootings we don’t hear about because they were prevented, whet that’s through the red flag law we passed after Parkland.”

The household of Madison faculty shooter Natalie Rupnow is cooperating with police, Madison officers mentioned on Monday evening.

The 15-year-old’s father was talking with police Monday night, Madison police chief Shon Barnes informed reporters.

“We have no reason to believe they have committed a crime at this time,” Barnes mentioned of the household.

The Madison Police Department has weighed in on fast-moving, unverified online speculation that the shooter in today’s Madison faculty taking pictures was transgender.

Chief Shon Barnes mentioned Monday night he didn’t know if Natalie Rupnow, who died within the taking pictures, was transgender, however that gender wasn’t instantly vital.

“I dont think that whatever happened today has anything to do with how she, or he, or they may have wanted to identify,” Barnes mentioned. “I wish people would kind of leave their own personal biases out of this. We have people who have yet another school shooting in Madison. That’s where my focus will be for the very near future.”

A second grader was the one who referred to as police on Monday morning to alert them concerning the Madison taking pictures, police mentioned.

“Let that soak in for a minute, a second grade student called 911 at 10:57am to report a shooting at school,” Madison Police Chief Shon Barnes mentioned on Monday.

The taking pictures occurred in a research corridor room the place college students of a number of grades have been current, police mentioned.

The Madison police division has recognized the shooter who killed two folks and died in a faculty taking pictures on Monday morning.

The particular person is 15-year-old Natalie Rupnow, who has beforehand been described by officers as a scholar on the faculty.

Police mentioned on Monday that an alleged doc circulating on-line from the shooter had not been verified.

Law enforcement believes the shooter who killed two folks and died in a faculty taking pictures on Monday in Madison, Wisconsin, deliberate the assault prematurely.

The particular person had been detailing with private issues and expressed a few of this info in writing, an unnamed regulation implement supply informed CNN.

So far, police haven’t spoken publicly a few motive, goal, or pre-made plan for the assault.

Police have no idea whether or not the taking pictures had a particular goal or motive.

“Whether they were targeted or not would speak to motivation and we don’t know that answer just yet,” Madison police chief Shon Barnes mentioned on Monday.

School officers are nonetheless discussing whether or not college students will return to class at Abundant Life Christian School this week, after a mass taking pictures on Monday left three lifeless and 6 injured. “Whether we will return to classes this week — because this was our last week, we were done on Friday — is still to be determined,” Barbara Wiers, director of elementary and faculty relations at Abundant Life, informed The Associated Press.

The taking pictures occurred at Abundant Life Christian School round 11 a.m. The suspected shooter is believed to be a “juvenile” scholar on the faculty who died by suicide, Madison Police Department Chief Shon Barnes mentioned on Monday afternoon. Six folks have been taken to close by hospitals with accidents starting from minor to life-threatening.

“I’m asking everyone to send your heartfelt wishes and prayers, and thoughts, yet again, to a community — but this time it’s my community,” Barnes informed reporters.