2 victims killed in Madison, Wisconsin school shooting identified by authorities

MADISON, Wis. -- Authorities person released the names of the 2 victims killed successful a Madison, Wisconsin schoolhouse shooting earlier this week.

The teacher who was killed was 42-year-old Erin M. West of Deforest, Wisconsin, and the pupil who was killed was 14-year-old Rubi P. Vergara of Madison, Wisconsin, the Dane County Medical Examiner's Officer said Wednesday.

This is simply a breaking quality update. The pursuing is from a erstwhile report.

Police are investigating the online footprint of the 15-year-old miss who allegedly opened occurrence with a handgun astatine her Madison, Wisconsin, Christian school, sidesplitting a teacher and different student.

The suspect, Natalie Rupnow, who went by Samantha, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, constabulary said.

The Monday greeting shooting astatine Abundant Life Christian School unfolded wrong a schoolroom during a survey hallway "full of students from aggregate people levels," constabulary said.

Six radical were hurt. Two students stay successful captious information with life-threatening injuries portion 3 students and a teacher suffered non-life-threatening injuries.

Meanwhile, galore schools successful the Madison Metropolitan School District "were targeted by mendacious threats often known arsenic swatting" connected Tuesday, Madison Police Chief Shon Barnes said astatine a quality conference.

Police are investigating, Barnes said, and helium noted authorities bash not judge determination are immoderate existent threats.

"Making mendacious threats is simply a crime, and we are moving with the territory attorney," helium said.

Barnes said constabulary are inactive moving to found a motive for the shooting and suggested determination were aggregate factors.

Police are talking to students to find if bullying was a factor, helium said.

"Everyone was targeted successful this incidental and everyone was enactment successful adjacent danger," Barnes added.

Rupnow's parents are cooperating with the investigation, Barnes told ABC News connected Tuesday.

"They were cooperative. Despite this tragedy, they inactive mislaid a child. They inactive mislaid a subordinate of their family," Barnes said.

"It is definite that they person astir apt much questions than anyone due to the fact that they knew her," helium said. "They lived with her and truthful we wanted to get an relationship from them of what benignant of kid she was."

At Tuesday's quality conference, the constabulary main urged anyone who knew her oregon had insights into her feelings to telephone Madison Area Crime Stoppers astatine 608-266-6014.

A candlelight vigil was held Tuesday nighttime astatine the authorities capitol for the victims.

"Yesterday, the Madison assemblage experienced a unspeakable and traumatic event," Madison Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway said astatine the vigil. "We volition ne'er beryllium the same, but we volition get done this. And we volition get done this unneurotic by relying connected each different and taking attraction of each other."

Rhodes-Conway told reporters during the quality league that they are respecting the privateness of the victims' families and volition "share what we tin erstwhile we can."

"Let them grieve. Let them recover. Let them heal," she said.

Students successful kindergarten done 12th people be the Christian school.

"I was successful the hallway, and I was changing from my shoes to my boots to spell to luncheon due to the fact that I person recess after, but past I heard the shooting and screams," a miss successful second-grade told Chicago ABC presumption WLS.

James Smith told ABC News his 17-year-old girl was successful physics people astatine the clip gunshots rang retired 2 classrooms away. She wasn't hurt.

Smith said Abundant Life Christian School welcomes students who whitethorn person been bullied oregon had a pugnacious clip astatine different schools.

"We, arsenic a school, tendency to assistance those who are having troubles, to beryllium capable to supply a harmless abstraction for them to grow, astatine the aforesaid clip equilibrium crossed a harmless abstraction for the remainder of our pupil body," helium said.

Smith besides said the school's colonisation grew dramatically post-pandemic arsenic galore parents sought an alternate to nationalist schools.

ABC News' Alex Perez, Briana Stewart and Molly Nagle contributed to this report.

ABC7 Chicago contributed to this report.