Wisconsin school shooting latest: Natalie Rupnow ‘received texts’ from man plotting government building attack

Rubi Patricia Vergara, 14, was a freshman at the school and “an avid reader, loved art, singing and playing keyboard in the family worship band,” according to her obituary which was shared on Wednesday evening.

It added that she was an animal lover, and “shared a special bond with her beloved pets, Ginger (cat) and Coco (dog).”

The teacher who was killed was also named on Wednesday evening as 42-year-old Erin Michelle West, the Dane County Medical Examiner’s Office confirmed.

West was a substitute coordinator at Abundant Life Christian School, according to the school’s staff directory.

“ALCS is a better school for the work of Erin West. She brought her love of Jesus and love of people to our staff and school family all wrapped in a hug and topped with a smile,” the school said in a statement to NBC News.

Natalie Rupnow joined a shooting range just months before the 15-year-old fatally shot a teacher and fellow student at a school in Wisconsin, according to her father.

Jeff Rupnow posted a photograph of his teen daughter shooting skeet at a Dane County range on Facebook in August. He wrote in a comment that the pair had joined in spring and had been “loving… every second of it”.

Rupnow, who also went by the name “Samantha,” wore a shirt emblazoned with the logo of the venerable German electro-industrial band KMFDM.

The top is similar to one worn by teenage mass shooter Harris, who in 1999, with classmate Dylan Klebold, fatally shot 15 students at Littleton, Colorado’s Columbine High School.

A 20-year-old man has been detained by authorities in Carlsbad, California, in connection with the deadly school shooting in Madison, Wisconsin.

According to a gun-violence restaining order issued Tuesday and obtained by CBS 8 in San Diego, FBI agents detained Alexander Paffendorf after discovering that Paffendorf had been texting 15-year-old Natalie Rupnow around the time of the shooting at the Abundant Life Christian School on Monday, where she opened fire, killing a student and a teacher.

She took her own life, and two students are still hospitalized in critical condition.

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Natalie Rupnow, the shooter who killed a student and teacher at a religious school in Wisconsin, brought two guns to the school, according to Madison Police Department Chief Shon Barnes.

The guns were both handguns, only one of which were used, he said. Police do not know how she obtained the weapons. Officers are now working alongside ATF officials to trace the origins of the weapon.

No decisions have been made about whether Rupnow’s parents might face charges, but they have been cooperating, Barnes said.

The teacher who was killed in the Wisconsin school shooting has been named as 42-year-old Erin Michelle West, the Dane County Medical Examiner’s Office confirmed on Wednesday night.

West was a substitute coordinator at Abundant Life Christian School, according to the school’s staff directory, the Journal Sentinelreported.

Earlier on Wednesday evening Rubi Vergara, 14, was named as the student who was killed in the deadly attack on Monday.

Rhian Lubin has the story.

The student who was killed in the Wisconsin school shooting has been identified as Rubi Patricia Vergara, 14.

An obituary released Wednesday named the 14-year-old as one of the victims of the shooting at Abundant Life Christian School on Monday, the Associated Press reported.

On Monday police identified 15-year-old Natalie “Samantha” Rupnow as the shooter at the Christian school, but have yet to reveal a motive following the deadly attack.

Rhian Lubin has the details.

The Abundant Life Christian School has set up an emergency recovery fund in the wake of the devastating shooting which took place on school grounds on Monday.

A pop up on the school’s website, which declares that ALCS is currently closed, asks visitors to donate to support the children, families and educators affected by the attack.

Via a portal on United Way of Dane County’s website,the school asks for donations of $20, $50, $100 or “other”.

One hundred percent of proceeds go to the school, according to the fundraising page.

A Californian man was detained by the FBI on Tuesday after allegedly texting Natalie Rupnow about a plot to blow up a government building.

Alexander Paffendorf, 20, was issued a gun-violence restraining order and detained by federal agents after he was accused of messaging the 15-year-old shooter around the time of her attack on the Abundant Life Christian School in Madison on Monday.

He is accused of detailing a plot involving the use of exploives and firearms to attack a goverment building. The location of the alleged attack was not made clear.

Paffendorf allegedly told Rupnow that he “would arm himself with explosives and a gun and that he would target a government building,” according to a two-page restraining order obtained by CBS 8.

Natalie Rupnow, the 15-year-old who opened fire on people inside the Abundant Life Christian School on Monday, seemed “quiet” and “really lonely,” a fellow student said.

Mackynzie Wilson, a sophomore at the school who had a locker next to Rupnow, said the teen appeared to be a lone wolf.

“She was really quiet. She didn’t really have any friends, and she just seemed really lonely,” Wilson told CNN.

“It wasn’t like she was trying to fit in. She seemed very content being alone.”

The shooting took place inside of a study hall room where students of multiple grades were present.

A second-grade teacher was the one who called 911 and alerted police to the shooting.

Officers arrived at the school about three minutes after the 911 call and immediately entered the school.