Emergency autos are parked outdoors the Plentiful Life Christian Faculty in Madison, Wis., the place a number of accidents had been reported following a taking pictures, Monday, Dec. 16, 2024. (AP Photograph/Morry Gash)
MADISON, Wis. — A teenage scholar opened hearth Monday at a personal Christian college in Wisconsin, killing a instructor and one other teen in the course of the remaining week earlier than Christmas break. The shooter additionally died, police stated.
The shooter additionally wounded others at Plentiful Life Christian Faculty, together with two college students who had been in essential situation, Madison Police Chief Shon Barnes stated.
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“I’m feeling somewhat dismayed now, so near Christmas,” Barnes stated. “Each youngster, each particular person in that constructing is a sufferer and will likely be a sufferer eternally. … We have to determine and attempt to piece collectively what precisely occurred.”
The shooter was a 17-year-old feminine scholar, a legislation enforcement official advised The Related Press. The official was not approved to debate the continued investigation and spoke to the AP on the situation of anonymity.
Police stated the shooter apparently was lifeless by suicide when officers arrived.
Plentiful Life is a nondenominational Christian college — kindergarten by highschool — with roughly 390 college students in Madison, the state capital. After the taking pictures, college students had been led subsequent door to Metropolis Church the place buses took them elsewhere to be reunited with households.
In the meantime, 9 public faculties in Madison had been locked down for just a few hours as a precaution.
“As troublesome as as we speak is, that’s nonetheless somebody’s youngster that’s gone,” the chief stated.
A motive for the taking pictures was not instantly recognized, he added.
“I don’t know why, and I really feel like if we did know why, we may cease these items from taking place,” Barnes stated.
911 known as
Somebody from the college known as 911 to report an lively shooter shortly earlier than 11 a.m. First responders who had been in coaching simply 3 miles (5 kilometers) away dashed to the college for an precise emergency, Barnes stated.
Investigators imagine the shooter used a 9mm pistol, a legislation enforcement official advised The Related Press. The official spoke on the situation of anonymity as a result of they weren’t approved to debate the continued investigation.
“I’m not conscious that the college had metallic detectors nor ought to faculties have metallic detectors. It’s a secure house,” Barnes stated.
Police blocked off roads across the college. Federal brokers had been on the scene to help native legislation enforcement.
Plentiful Life requested for prayers in a short Fb put up.
Bethany Highman, the mom of a scholar, rushed to the college and discovered over FaceTime that her daughter was OK.
“As quickly because it occurred, your world stops for a minute. Nothing else issues,” Highman stated. “There’s no person round you. You simply bolt for the door and attempt to do the whole lot you may as a mum or dad to be along with your children.”
In a press release, the White Home stated President Joe Biden has been briefed on the taking pictures and officers had been in contact with native authorities to offer help.
Wisconsin governor
“As a father, a grandfather, and as governor, it’s unthinkable {that a} child or an educator may get up and go to highschool one morning and by no means come residence,” Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers stated. “This could by no means occur, and I’ll by no means settle for this as a foregone actuality or cease working to vary it.”
It was the the newest amongst dozens of faculty shootings throughout the U.S. in recent times, together with particularly lethal ones in Newtown, Connecticut; Parkland, Florida; and Uvalde, Texas.
The shootings have set off fervent debates about gun management and frayed the nerves of fogeys whose youngsters are rising up accustomed to doing lively shooter drills of their lecture rooms. However college shootings have achieved little to maneuver the needle on nationwide gun legal guidelines.
Firearms had been the main explanation for dying amongst youngsters in 2020 and 2021, in keeping with KFF, a nonprofit that researches well being care points.
Madison Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway stated the nation must do extra to forestall gun violence.
“I hoped that this present day would by no means come to Madison,” she stated.
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