By SCOTT BAUER and TODD RICHMOND, Related Press
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The daddy of a Wisconsin teenage lady who killed a trainer and fellow pupil in a college taking pictures was charged with felonies Thursday in reference to the case, police mentioned.
The taking pictures occurred at Plentiful Life Christian College in Madison final December.
The shooter’s father, Jeffrey Rupnow, 42, of Madison, was taken into custody round 3:45 a.m. Thursday, police mentioned.
Rupnow was charged with contributing to the delinquency of a kid and two counts of offering a harmful weapon to an individual below 18 leading to demise. All three prices are felonies, punishable by as much as six years in jail every. He was scheduled to make an preliminary look in courtroom on Friday.
Rupnow’s daughter, 15-year-old Natalie Rupnow, opened hearth on Dec. 16, 2024, at Plentiful Life Christian College, killing a trainer and a 14-year-old pupil earlier than killing herself. Two different college students have been critically injured.
Police had mentioned they have been investigating how Natalie Rupnow obtained two weapons she had the day of the assault. Police haven’t mentioned a transparent motive within the assault. Former Madison Police Chief Shon Barnes mentioned shortly after the taking pictures {that a} “combination of factors” motivated the taking pictures, however he declined to specify what they have been.
Jeffrey Rupnow is the most recent guardian of a college shooter to face prices related to an assault.
Final yr, the mom and father of a college shooter in Michigan who killed 4 college students in 2021 have been every convicted of involuntary manslaughter. The mom was the primary guardian within the U.S. to be held accountable for a kid finishing up a mass college assault.
The daddy of a 14-year-old boy accused of fatally taking pictures 4 individuals at a Georgia highschool was arrested in September and faces prices together with second-degree homicide and involuntary manslaughter for letting his son possess a weapon.
In 2023, the daddy of a person charged in a lethal Fourth of July parade taking pictures in suburban Chicago pleaded responsible to seven misdemeanors associated to how his son obtained a gun license.
Killed within the taking pictures have been Plentiful Life trainer Erin Michelle West, 42, and pupil Rubi Patricia Vergara, 14.
Plentiful Life is a nondenominational Christian college that provides prekindergarten lessons by way of highschool. About 420 college students attend the establishment.
Initially Printed: Could 8, 2025 at 2:37 PM EDT
