Police are investigating why a teenage girl brought a handgun to her small Christian school in Wisconsin and opened fire, killing two people and wounding several others a week before Christmas. A student and a teacher were killed, and six people were taken to area hospitals, Madison police said.
The shooter entered the school at the beginning of the day with the rest of the students, police said. Late Monday morning, the shooter was in a study hall classroom with students from mixed grades, the police chief said. At a. Previously, Barnes said a second-grade student had called before correcting himself Tuesday.
The first Madison police officer arrived 24 seconds later and immediately entered the school. A group of police medics were in a training session on mass trauma incidents about 3 miles away, Barnes said. Sixth grader Adler Jean-Charle was in class with his twin brother at the time of the shooting.
Abundant Life had planned to dismiss its students next week for the Christmas holiday, but the school announced Tuesday it has closed early because of the shooting. In a message on its website, it said those wishing to support the school can donate to the Abundant Life Christian School Emergency and Recovery Fund , which will be used to aid people impacted by the tragedy. The attack at Abundant Life is at least the 83rd school shooting of , surpassing for the most school shootings in a single year since CNN began tracking such shootings in Of the 83 school shootings this year, 56 have been reported on K campuses and 27 on university and college campuses.
The deadliest school shooting of the year was in Winder, Georgia, where four victims were left dead at Apalachee High School. Natalie Rupnow attended the private school, which serves some students in grades kindergarten through 12, officials said. Madison police are also working with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to find the origin of the gun. The others involved either lone male suspects or a group of male suspects. Investigators are looking into online posts and a possible manifesto that might be linked to the shooter, the police chief said Tuesday.
