What is Natalie Rupnow share on social media before shooting
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In an image shared on her X account prior to deactivation, a person is wearing combat boots and giving the 'Ok' sign with their fingers.
The most recent picture shared was from August of this year, showing what appears to be Natalie Rupnow at a shooting range.
Jeff Rupnow appears to be the father of the shooter, Natalie Rupnow. Rupnow lives in the same area of Wisconsin, and has shared many pictures of what appears to be his daughter over the years, beginning in 2009, with the announcement of the birth of Natalie Lynne.
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| Jeff Rupnow's social media said he was single, and his Facebook page was filled with photos of his daughter and his dogs. |
Mellissa Rupnow's page, which has since been deleted or set to private, showed less information, containing a profile picture and a photo of a trip to Florida.
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The parents of Natalie Rupnow, the 15-year-old accused of opening fire at Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wisconsin, on December 16, have been identified.
Natalie Rupnow, who also went by "Samantha," died at the scene from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. One teacher and one student died in the shooting, and six other people were injured, including two people who are in critical condition.
Natalie Rupnow's parents are believed to be Jeff and Mellissa Rupnow from Madison.
Madison Police Chief Shon Barnes said, "The parents are fully cooperating, we have no reason to believe that they have committed a crime at this time."
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A teacher and a teenage student were killed in a shooting at a private Christian school in Madison, Wis., on Monday, police said.
At a press briefing Monday evening, Madison Police Chief Shon Barnes said that the shooter had been identified as 15-year-old Natalie Rupnow, who went by the name Samantha. “She was a student at the school and evidence suggests that she died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound,” he said.
Barnes said Rupnow's parents were cooperating with detectives and that a motive for the shooting had not yet been determined.
School shootings by teenage females have been extremely rare in U.S. history, with males in their teens and 20s carrying out the vast majority of them, according to David Riedman, founder of the K-12 School Shooting Database.
In a blog post last year, he pointed to a handful of school shootings that involved perpetrators who identified as female, including a 16-year-old girl who shot and killed two and injured several others at San Diego elementary school in 1979.
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