The photo shows the babyface killer who shot a fellow student and a teacher at her high school in Wisconsin.
Natalie Samantha Rupnow, 15, killed herself after unleashing the massacre in a study hall at Abundant Life Christian School. She also injured six others, including two students who were in critical condition.
A substitute teacher and three students had been taken to a hospital with less serious injuries, and two of them had been released Monday evening.
Rupnow’s father Jeff Rupnow shared several photos of his daughter over the years — all the way back to her birth in 2009.
The father works with police as they try to find a motive for the tragedy.
The shooter’s parents, who are divorced, shared joint custody of their child, but the shooter primarily lived with her 42-year-old father, according to court documents.
Investigators on Tuesday were focused on determining the motive for the school shooting that left a teacher and a student dead and two other children in critical condition.
Natalie Samantha Rupnow, a Christian school shooter from Wisconsin, has been photographed killing a fellow student and a teacher at Abundant Life Christian School in Madison.
The shooting left two dead and six injured, two of whom are in critical condition. A family is seen leaving the reunification center after the tragedy
Shon Barnes, the police chief in Madison, said investigators were aware of a “manifesto, if you want to call it that, or a letter of some sort” posted by someone who may have known the shooter, 15-year-old college student Natalie Rupnow .
“We haven’t been able to locate that person yet, but we’re going to work on that today,” Barnes told CNN.
“We’ll also look through (Rupnow’s) effects, whether she had a computer or cell phone, to see if there are any transmissions between her and anyone else, and that will give us an idea of what kind of planning.”
Chief Barnes said they are trying to piece together a timeline of the shooter’s final hours before she left for school.
Barnes said they have asked the ATF to determine the origin of the gun used in the shooting and how the 15-year-old got his hands on it. He said he is unsure if the gun was owned or possessed by her parents.
When asked if her parents could be charged with a crime, Barnes said they volunteered information, but he also wanted to see if the parents were negligent. But right now he says that doesn’t seem to be the case.
Michigan and Georgia have seen two prominent cases in recent years of parents facing criminal charges after their children were accused of school shootings.
Jeff Rupnow shared a photo of one of his daughters being encouraged by her father to handle and fire guns. Mr Rupnow shared a photo (above) on Facebook at a local shooting range in August
Jeff Rupnow posted a photo on Facebook of his daughter at a shooting range. He was asked by a friend if it was his daughter in the image. He replied: “This spring I joined the NBSC (North Bristol Shooting Club) and we have loved every second of it.
The NBSC – or North Bristol Sportsman’s Club – is a gun club in Sun Prairie, a suburb of Madison, that offers annual family memberships for just $90, according to its website.
The club was founded in 1970 and has more than 600 members. The alleged membership of the Rupnows has not yet been confirmed by the club. DailyMail.com has approached the NBSC for comment.
Abundant Life is a nondenominational Christian school – preschool through high school – with approximately 420 students in Madison, the state capital.
The school does not have metal detectors, but uses other security measures, including cameras.
Children and families were reunited at a health clinic about a mile away. Parents hugged their children to their chests, while others squeezed their hands and shoulders as they walked side by side. A girl was comforted with an adult-sized jacket around her shoulders as she made her way to a parking lot full of police vehicles.
Abundant Life is a non-denominational Christian school – from kindergarten to high school – with approximately 420 students
The school shooting was the latest of dozens in the United States in recent years, including mostly fatal shootings in Newtown, Connecticut; Parkland, FL; and Uvalde, Texas.
According to KFF, a nonprofit organization that researches health care issues, firearms were the leading cause of death among children in 2020 and 2021.