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(NewsNation) — Residents successful Madison, Wisconsin, proceed to wrestle with Monday’s shooting astatine Abundant Life Christian School, where a 15-year-old pupil opened occurrence and killed 2 radical portion injuring six others.
Madison Police Chief Shon Barnes told NewsNation that radical proceed to conflict with however different schoolhouse shooting took spot successful the U.S. and however aboriginal tragedies tin beryllium prevented.
“Our assemblage is truly trying to grapple with this,” Barnes said.
Two students who sustained non-life-threatening injuries were released from the infirmary connected Monday night, Barnes said. Meanwhile, the probe continues into the shooting successful which Natalie Rupnow, who went by the sanction Samantha, opened occurrence astatine the non-denominational Christian school.
Rupnow was pronounced dormant successful transport to a hospital, portion 1 teacher and 1 teen were declared dormant astatine the scene.
Barnes said Rupnow’s household is cooperating with the constabulary and that investigators spoke astatine magnitude with Rupnow’s begetter connected Monday night. Barnes said Rupnow was not connected constabulary radar but said successful galore cases, accusation astir suspects progressive successful schoolhouse shootings comes to airy aft the fact.
Police program to clasp a quality league connected Tuesday day to sermon caller details successful their investigation, including astir items that were taken from the family’s location Monday night. Barnes said that the hunt was done voluntarily and that investigators did not request a hunt warrant.
Barnes said constabulary besides anticipation to soon verify an online papers that was circulating that could talk to the shooter’s motive. The main said that different documents were taken from the location connected Monday that could supply clues.
“We privation to marque definite that earlier we enactment immoderate accusation retired that surely we are arsenic close arsenic we perchance tin knowing that things whitethorn change,” Barnes told NewsNation. “But we besides privation to marque definite that if this papers is being circulated, that radical cognize astir it.”
He added: “We person to bash everything successful our powerfulness to forestall these (shootings) from happening again, again and again successful our country.”
Madison constabulary are moving with the ATF to hint wherever the handgun utilized successful Monday’s shooting came from, Barnes said. Police are trying to find if the weapon was successful the location oregon if the limb was fixed to Rupnow by different person.
“We don’t know,” Barnes said astir the gun’s origin, adding, “Everyone is anxious to cognize wherefore this happened and we whitethorn ne'er know.”
