Wisconsin school shooting: 15-year-old female student IDed as assailant

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shooting at a Wisconsin Christian school that killed a teacher and student and wounded several others before she took her own life, police have confirmed.The shooter was identified as Abundant Life Christian School student Natalie Rupnow at a press conference Monday night. Police say the attacker also used the first name Samantha.Madison police Chief Shon Barnes told reporters Rupnow was found with a self-inflicted gunshot wound when officers arrived at the school, and died en route to hospital.Six others were wounded after she opened fire in a mixed-grades study hall, including two students who remain in critical condition.

A teacher and three other students were taken to hospital with less serious injuries and two had been released by Monday evening.While police originally said it was a student in the second grade who called 911, resulting in dozens of police officers rushing to the scene, Barnes clarified on Tuesday afternoon that it was a second grade teacher that placed the call. Barbara Wiers, director of elementary and school relations for Abundant Life Christian School, told The Associated Press that the students “handled themselves magnificently.”She said that when the school practices safety routines, which the faculty had done just before the school year, leaders always announce that it is a drill.

That didn’t happen Monday.“When they heard, ‘Lockdown, lockdown,’ they knew it was real,” she said.The 911 call came just before 11 a.m. on Monday.

First responders were in training just five kilometres away and hurried to the scene for an actual emergency, making it to the school three minutes later.Investigators believe the shooter used a 9 mm pistol, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press. The