Cops say, Wisconsin shooter, the 2 killed

The father of the 15-year-old, who was accused of fatally shot a student and a teacher at the plenty of life school in Wisconsin last December.

Madison's prosecutors raised criminal charges against Jeffrey Ruppnow, the 42-year-old father of school shooter Natalie Ruppnow, who died of suicide after the shooting. He faces two crimes that deliberately give a dangerous weapon for a minor, which leads to death and a criminal offense that has contributed to the delinquency of a child, as recorded.

The 15-year-old opened the fire on the morning of December 16, 2024 with a pistol in the halls of the private Christian K-12 school, killed two and injured six more. Her father was arrested five months after the tragedy.

When the investigators searched the house, they found a “manifesto” entitled “Was against Humanity”, a cardboard model of the school and plans for the shootout in the teenage bedroom.

“The recovered objects were worrying,” said John Patterson, Madison police chief, at a press conference on Thursday. “They were alarming and would have led every average person to the concern of violence.”

In the school, the investigators brought back 20 mussels and two weapons of 9 mm and a weapon of 9 mm and 22 caliber. Both weapons were legally bought in shops in Dane County, Wisconsin, said the chief of police. Only one was used in the fatal shooting and the other was found in the girl's pocket.

Rupnow announced Detective that he both bought one for his daughter, one for Christmas in 2023 and the others the following summer, the complaint said. She paid for some of the second weapon with her own money, but she was registered in his name, the registrations said.

In search of his house, the authorities found three rifles and six handguns in the house. Eight of the firearms were locked up in a safe and another was found in a bed drawer.

They were all legally bought, said Patterson. “There was a weapon safe in the apartment. Due to our investigation, the teenager did not prevent the teenager from having regular access to the firearms.”

The police questioned the teenager's mother whether her daughter was allowed to use her father's weapons when he was not nearby. According to the A police complaint, her mother replied: “No, he should keep her locked up.”

After the fatal shootings, Facebook photos appeared and caught the teenager within a shot and wore a T-shirt that was worn by the Columbine killer Eric Harris.

“Go to [shooting] The range was like therapy for him, ”says the complaint about Rupnow, who also said it was a way to“ combine ”with his daughter.

According to the complaint, he also found that until spring she had been in the therapy before shooting and admitted that she had made some disturbing “outbursts” and things like: “I hate my life, I will kill myself.”

In her six -sided manifesto she wrote: “I got the weapons through lies and manipulation and the stupidity of my fathers.”

She also discussed “fear of other children and how she hates people,” the registration says. The teenage also mentioned the names of mass murderers, including one that she described as “ultimate saints”.

He is held in the prison of Dane County and appeared in court on Friday.