The father of the teenager, who killed 2 in the Wisconsin School, is charged – NBC Chicago

The Wisconsin public prosecutor charged the father of a teenage girl on Thursday who killed a teacher and fellow student in a school last year so that she admitted access to the semi -automatic pistols she had used in the attack.

The criminal complaint against the 42-year-old Jeffrey Ruppnow by Madison describes, like his daughter, 15-year-old Natalie Rupnow, had to struggle with the divorce of her parents and showed her anger in a written piece with the title “War against Humanity”. Her father tried to connect with her through weapons, the complaint, although she carefully planned the attack, including the construction of a cardboard model of the school and the planning of the shootout to end with her suicide.

Jeffrey Ruppnow was arrested early Thursday and brought to Dane County prison. He was supposed to appear on Friday. Online court files have not listed a lawyer for him. The incumbent police chief of Madison, John Patterson, said he was cooperative during the investigation. Nobody returned voicemails that were left for him and his ex-wife Melissa Rupnow in possible telephone lists.

Attack left 2 dead, 6 injured

Natalie Ruppnow entered a rich life of Christan School, a religious school in Madison, which offers high school courses on December 16 and opened the fire in a study hall. She killed the teacher Erin Michelle West and 14-year-old student Rubi Bergara and injured six more before killing herself.

According to the complaint, the investigators have restored 20 mussel sleeves from the study hall in which they opened the fire.

They also recovered a 9 mm glock pistol that Jeffrey Ruppnow bought from the room and a Sig Sauer pistol of .22 caliber from a bag that the girl wore, the complaint says. Jeffrey Ruppnow gave her this weapon as a Christmas present in 2023, the complaint said.

Also in the pocket were three magazines with .22 ammunition and a 50-round box of 9 mm ammunition. During the attack, she wore a black T-shirt that was decorated with a bull eye with a bull eye.

Natalie Rupnow had to struggle with the divorce of the parents

Jeffrey Ruppnow told the investigators that his daughter lived with him, but had to struggle with her mother in 2022 and said she hated her life and wanted to kill herself. He said she got to the point at which he had to lock all the knives in his house.

She had been in the therapy to learn how to be more social until spring before the attack, he told the investigators. Her mother, Melissa Rupnow, told the detective, that the therapist told her that Natalie had a post -traumatic stress disorder from divorce. One of Natalie's friends told the investigators that Jeffrey Ruppnow was “often verbally aggressive” with Natalie and that she had told him that her father was a “drinker”, according to the complaint.

Jeffery Ruppnow told the investigators that Natalie shot with him about two years before the abundant attack on the country of a friend. She enjoyed it and he saw weapons to connect with her. But he was shocked by how her interest in firearms was “snow -flated”, he told the investigators.

He kept Natalie's pistols in a weapon and told her that the access code, if she ever needed her, was entered backwards. About 10 days before the school attack, he wrote to a friend and said that Natalie would shoot him if he had “left the funny safe open at the moment”.

The day before the school attack, he took the Sig Sauer out of the safe so that Natalie could clean her. But he was distracted and was not sure whether he put the gun back into the safe or locked it, according to the complaint.

“War against humanity”

A search for Natalie's room achieved a six -side document that the girl wrote with the title “War against Humanity”. She started the piece by describing humanity as a “dirt” and said she hated people who didn't care about it, and “smoke her lungs with weeds or drink as much as you can like my own father”.

She wrote about how she admired school shooters how her mother was not in her life and how she received her weapons, “through lies and manipulation and stupidity of my fathers”.

The investigators also discovered cards from the school and a cardboard model of the building as well as a handwritten schedule, in which she became detailed how the attack would be at 11:30 a.m. and the first and second floor of the school had wiped out at 11:55 a.m.

She had communicated online with people around the world about her fascination for school shootings and weapons, said John Patterson, chief of police at Madison, on Thursday.

Father calls the teaching of her weapon security “greatest mistakes”

Jeffery Ruppnow sent a message to a detective two weeks after the shootout and said that his biggest mistake was to teach Natalie how to deal with weapons safely and ask the police to warn people to change their weapons safe combinations every two to three months, the complaint said.

“Children are smart and they will find out,” he wrote. “Just like someone who tries to chop their bank account. I just want to protect other families from what I was going through.”

After the complaint, after he found out that Natalie was the shooter while talking to a police officer, Melissa Rupnow began to breathe through her nose very quickly and screamed something to kill him for the effects “I will kill him” and apparently refer to her ex-husband.

In cases of the last cases, the fees are against parents in the event of a school shooting

Jeffrey Ruppnow is the youngest parent of a school shooter who is charged with an attack.

Last year, the mother and father of a school shooter in Michigan, who killed four students in 2021, were sentenced to involuntarily homicide. The mother was the first parent in the United States to be held responsible for a child who carried out a mass school attack.

The father of a 14-year-old boy who was accused of fatally shot four people at a Georgia High School was arrested in September and was charged with a second degree and involuntary homicide murder because he could have a gun.

In 2023, the father of a man who was charged with a fatal parade parade in a suburb of seven offenses committed himself for seven offenses that his son received a weapon license.