3 days Ago By ASSOCIATED PRESS
MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin police did not plan any public updates Wednesday on the religious school shooting that killed a teacher and a student and wounded six others, a day after the city’s mayor chastised reporters and urged them to leave victims alone. Police have been tight-lipped about why a 15-year-old student at Abundant Life Christian School shot and killed a fellow student and teacher on Monday, before shooting herself.
Two other students who were shot remained in critical condition on Wednesday. Madison’s police chief released the name of the shooter, Natalie “Samantha” Rupnow, hours after the shooting on Monday. But police have yet to release the names of the two people she killed.
A spokesperson for UW Health said she had no update on the three patients who were transferred to the hospital Monday. A spokesperson for the Dane County Medical Examiner’s Office declined to release any information about the number of autopsies it was performing or the identity of the victims. Tension over police not releasing additional information spilled over into a news conference on Tuesday, where Madison Police Chief Shon Barnes left without taking questions.
Madison Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway grew increasingly terse in her responses as reporters asked questions she could not answer. “It is absolutely none of y’alls business who was harmed in this incident,” Rhodes-Conway said. “Please, have some human decency and respect for the people who lost loved ones or were injured themselves or whose children were injured.
Just have some human decency, folks. Leave them alone. Let them grieve.
Let them recover. Let them heal. Don’t feed off their pain.
We’ll share what we can when we can and not before that.”.
