A student opened fire at a private Christian school in the US state of Wisconsin, killing a teacher and a teenage student and injuring six people, two of them critically, police said.
Madison Police Chief Sean Barnes identified the shooter Monday night as a 15-year-old student at the school. According to him, a second-grade student at the school called the police to report the shooting, reports A2.
Authorities say Natalie Rupnow was present at Abundant Life Christian School before she opened fire and was pronounced dead at the scene. Six students were injured, including two who suffered life-threatening injuries.
According to the police, Natalie Rupnow, known as "Samantha", allegedly shot herself using the weapon with which she committed the massacre, a 9 mm pistol, writes A2.
"Shocking and unreasonable" commented President Joe Biden on the shooting at the school in Wisconsin.
"We need Congress to act now. From Newtown to Uvalde, from Parkland to Madison, to so many other shootings that go unnoticed, it's unacceptable that we can't protect our children from this the scourge of gun violence. We cannot continue to accept it as normal that every child deserves to feel safe in his classroom", he said, reports A2.
The school in Wisconsin welcomes children and teenagers ages kindergarten through high school. The structure is attended by 390 students. The massacre happened just before Christmas at Abundant Life Christian School in Madison.
"Today we pray for the children, the teachers and the entire Abundant Life school community because the victims of these barbaric acts are all of them, not just those who unfortunately lost their lives," Barnes said, his voice breaking with tears. The first conference a few hours after the massacre, writes A2 CNN.
The shooting in Madison comes less than two weeks after another tragedy at a Christian school in California, where, fortunately, only two children were injured and the shooter killed himself. But these two recent incidents of violence add to at least 403 other mass shootings in the United States this year, according to the Gun Violence Archive.
In September, a 14-year-old armed with a rifle he received as a Christmas present killed two students and two teachers at his Georgia school, a case that shocked the United States because his father was also arrested and charged , who had made the weapon available to him. A fact that is becoming increasingly common in the United States, where 80% of the guns used by students in mass shootings are obtained from the homes of family members or relatives and friends. (A2 Televizion)
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