On December 16, 2024, a tragic shooting occurred at Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wisconsin, resulting in three fatalities, including the shooter, and six injuries. The shooting began shortly before 11:00 a.m. local time. The assailant, identified as a teenage student at the school, Natalie Lynn Rupnow, used a handgun to fatally shoot a fellow student and a teacher before taking their own life. Six other individuals sustained injuries; two are in critical condition, while the remaining four have non-life-threatening injuries.
Madison Police Chief Shon Barnes reported that officers arrived promptly and found the suspect deceased. No shots were fired by the responding officers. A handgun was recovered at the scene. The school was secured, and authorities confirmed there is no ongoing threat to the community.
Now, reports are surfacing that the shooter was a transgender teenager, similar to the Nashville shooting of Covenant High School in 2023. The shooter’s writings weren’t released for an entire year afterward.
Reports that the shooter was transgender are unconfirmed at present, and seem to come primarily from the X account “Remarks”.
Police investigating the matter were asked by journalists if the reports were in fact true. "I don't know whether [the shooter] was transgender or not," Chief Barnes said.
The Chief seemed to haphazardly use gender neutral pronouns to describe the shooter, but then emphasized that the shooter's identity is not important.
"I don't think that whatever happened today has anything to do with how she or he or they may have wanted to identify - and I wish people would kind of leave their own personal biases out of this." He said.
"So, whether or not she was, he was, they were transgender is something that may come out later -- but for what we're doing right now, today, literally eight hours after a mass shooting in a school in Madison, it is of no consequence at this time."
Andy Ngo reposted on X, what is allegedly a portion of the shooters manifesto posted on discord in which she expressed a desire to 'wipe out,' all men because they are a "scourge". The writings grew darker and more grim as they went on. "I dont [sic] care if theyr [sic] fathers, brothers, husbands, sons, police, and especially n**gers and politicians.ive [sic] been craving to kill them all."
The post sites the patriarchy as a primary reason for the hatred.
