He kills a teacher and a student before taking his own life. Here’s who Madison’s killer was

A 15 year old girl obsessed with the Columbine massacre who liked to invent different names and identities. This, for the moment, is the profile of Madison’s killer, the student who opened fire in her school and killed a teacher and a student before taking her own life. Another teacher and five other pupils were injured, two in critical condition. Yet another massacre in an American school this time it was carried out by a girl, Natalie Rupnow, who called herself Samantha and, according to some American media, is a transgender person. The police neither denied nor confirmed, stressing that the Madison tragedy “has nothing to do with the gender someone identifies with.” Nothing is yet known about her motive for sowing death and terror at the Abundant Life School, but a photo has been published on social media in which the killer is wearing a t-shirt with the logo of a German band, identical to that of Eric Harris, the 18-year-old who together with his peer Dylan Klebold he massacred 12 students and a teacher at Columbine High School, in Colorado, in 1999. An unhealthy admiration for the massacred children who carried out one of the most bloody school shootings in American history, before committing suicide. Perhaps emulation is a lead that the police are following, in addition to investigating an alleged manifesto published by a person who claims to be a friend of the killer. “We have not yet been able to locate this person, but we are working on it,” explained Police Chief Shon Barnes. Last May, in the same area of ​​Wisconsin, 14-year-old Damian Haglund tried to enter his middle school with an air rifle, but was shot dead by the police before he could carry out his massacre. Investigators later found writings in his diary in which he planned the attack and his death and admitted to being obsessed with school massacres: not only Columbine, but also Sandy Hook, Ecole Polytech and others. Madison officers are also searching Natalie’s computer and cell phone and searching the house where she lived with her parents. The Rupnows are cooperating with investigators and the next few hours will be crucial to establish their role, whether the gun used in the shooting was their property and whether there was negligence. It would not be the first time that the parents of a teenage killer are held responsible for the actions of their children, as happened a few months ago in Georgia, where the father of the fourteen-year-old who killed two students and two teachers in his school in Wader was arrested and indicted for giving him an assault rifle for Christmas. Meanwhile, the police have reconstructed that the call to 911, the emergency number in the United States, was made by a teacher of a second grade class, and not by a 7 or 8 year old pupil as the first rumors suggested. Since the beginning of the year there have been 83 school shootings, one more than in 2023, and of these 56 occurred in institutions ranging from elementary to high school, the so-called K-12, and the other 27 on university campuses. For Joe Biden, yet another massacre is “shocking and unreasonable”. «We need Congress to act now – reiterated the president who in his four years in the White House has tried in every way to put pressure on Capitol Hill for a greater crackdown on weapons and a ban on assault rifles -. From Newtown to Uvalde, from Parkland to Madison, to so many other shootings that get no attention, it is unacceptable that we are unable to protect our children from this plague of gun violence. We cannot continue to accept it as normal. Every child deserves to feel safe in their classroom. Students across our country should be learning to read and write, not dodge bullets and run for cover.”