Important Takeaways:
- Natalie Rupnow was identified as the shooter who opened fire inside a study hall inside Abundant Life Christian School, Madison Police Chief Shon Barnes said. Responding officers found Rupnow with a self-inflicted gunshot wound. She died on the way to a hospital.
- Police were speaking with Rupnow’s father and other family members, who were cooperating, and searching Rupnow’s home, Barnes said. He declined to offer additional details about the shooter, partly out of respect for the family.
- “He lost someone as well,” Barnes said of Rupnow’s father. “And so we’re not going to rush the information. We’ll take our time and make sure we do our due diligence.”
- Barnes said officers responded just before 11 a.m. to a second-grade student’s 911 call reporting the shooting.
- The teacher and student that were killed in the shooting have not yet been identified.
- Barnes said that of the six wounded in the shooting, two were students in critical condition. A teacher and three students were also hospitalized with less serious injuries, and two of them were later released.
- The FBI’s Milwaukee bureau says it has deployed agents to the scene to assist in investigating.
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Mathew 24:12 And because lawlessness will be increased, the love of many will grow cold.
Important Takeaways:
- Shooting at Nashville Christian school leaves 3 children and 3 adults dead, officials say
- A 28-year-old shooter, with two semiautomatic weapons and a handgun, opened fire inside The Covenant School, police said. The school serves preschool to sixth grade.
- A heavily armed former student shot through a locked school door before killing three children and three staff members
- In addition to the three 9-year-old students, the 28-year-old attacker fatally wounded a custodian, a substitute teacher and the head of school before being killed by responding officers
- “There were maps drawn of the school, in detail of surveillance, entry points”
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A Christian school has won a legal battle with two teachers who sued the school after their contracts were not renewed because they refused to provide proof they were Christians.
Little Oaks Elementary Schhol, owned by Calvary Chapel of Thousand Oaks, California, requires all teachers to complete a form that affirms their faith in Christ as part of their teacher contracts. Two teachers, Lynda Serrano and Mary Ellen Guevara, refused to submit the document.
The document requires among other things a pastor attesting to their church attendance and their Christians beliefs.
The women claimed they were being discriminated against because they refused to sign the papers.
Ventura County Superior Court Judge Henry Walsh sided with the school saying that the teachers served in a ministerial capacity when they were working within the school. That meant the school can require proof of faith as a condition of employment.
“We are grateful that this Court has chosen to protect the liberty of Little Oaks School,” commented attorney James Long in a press release on Wednesday. “It only makes sense that a Christian school has the constitutional right to require that its teachers provide a reference from a pastor.”
