US EditionPolice arrest father of 15-year-old who killed 2 at Wisconsin religious school
- Jeffrey Rupnow, 42, from Madison, was arrested in May 2025 for allowing his 15-year-old daughter Natalie access to guns used in a December 2024 Wisconsin school shooting that killed two and injured six at Abundant Life Christian School.
- Natalie's attack followed her emotional struggles with her parents' 2022 divorce and fascination with school shootings, while her father tried bonding through firearms and kept her pistols in a gun safe he coded with his reversed Social Security number.
- Investigators found a 9 mm Glock and a.22-caliber Sig Sauer pistol, both legally bought by Rupnow; Natalie meticulously planned the shooting, even building a cardboard school model and scheduling her suicide to follow the attack.
- Jeffrey Rupnow called teaching Natalie gun safety his 'biggest mistake' and urged people to change gun safe codes regularly, while police linked this case to a series of recent parental charges related to school shootings nationally.
- Rupnow faces multiple felony counts including providing dangerous weapons to a minor causing death, with his initial court appearance scheduled Friday, highlighting growing legal consequences for parents of school shooters.
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School Shooter’s Dad Faces Felony Charges for Daughter’s Crimes
Jeffrey Rupnow, the father of 15-year-old Natalie Rupnow, is now subject to charges over his attempts to bond with his daughter through firearms, while she was carefully planning a shooting at her high school
Father of School Shooter Faces Felony Charges for Firearms
Jeffrey Rupnow, 42, has been charged with multiple felonies after his 15-year-old daughter, Natalie Rupnow, carried out a deadly shooting at Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wisconsin, on December 16, 2024. The attack resulted in the deaths of teacher Erin Michelle West, 42, and student Rubi Patricia Vergara, 14, and left six others injured before Natalie took her own life. Prosecutors allege that Rupnow provided his daughter with acce…
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