Login Watch TV Menu Crime Wisconsin school shooting by first-semester student lasted 8 minutes: official Police say Natalie Rupnow shot and killed 2 people and left 6 others injured Michael Dorgan By Michael Dorgan Fox News Published December 20, 2024 9:00am EST Facebook Twitter Flipboard Comments Print Email Law enforcement can gain a lot of information from the Wisconsin shooting manifesto, former FBI agent says Former FBI special agent Nicole Parker unpacks the investigation into the school shooting on Fox News @ Night. More details are emerging about the 15-year-old girl who police say killed a teacher and teen student in a shooting at a private Christian school in Madison, Wisconsin, on Monday, with school officials revealing she was in her first semester at the school and that the terrifying attack lasted eight minutes. Police say Natalie Rupnow opened fire inside a study hall inside Abundant Life Christian School (ALCS) just before 11 a.m., killing a fellow student and a teacher, while six people were injured, including two students with life-threatening injuries. A motive for the slayings is unknown, with Rupnow taking her own life during the incident. Barbara Wiers, the school’s director for elementary and communications, said Rupnow was a new student at the school and that teachers had no significant concerns about her. MADISON, WISCONSIN, SCHOOL SHOOTING SUSPECT WAS IN CONTACT WITH MAN ACCUSED OF PLOTTING HIS OWN ATTACK: REPORT Wiers added that the attack lasted eight minutes — shorter than the school’s regular snack break. She said the community’s faith and connection to one another has sustained them as they struggle with the possibility that the shooter’s motive might remain undetermined. man with a cross and Abundant Life high school The 15-year-old girl who police say killed a teacher and teen student in a shooting at a Christian school in Wisconsin was in her first semester at the school and the attack lasted eight minutes, school officials say. Dan Beazley, left, standing with a homemade cross he brought from Michigan for victims of the shooting. (AP Photo/Mark Vancleave, left, AP Photo/Morry Gash, right. ) Police say they received a 911 call at 10:57 a.m., and the first law enforcement officer entered the building at 11 a.m. "Are we broken right now? Yes. Are we bruised and battered? Yes," Wiers told The Associated Press. "But we will laugh again, and He will turn our mourning into joy again. And we will go on." The news comes amid revelations that Rupnow was in contact with a 20-year-old man in California, whom authorities say was plotting a mass shooting with her. The Carlsbad man, according to a restraining order obtained by the AP, told FBI agents that he had been messaging Rupnow about attacking a government building with a gun and explosives. The order does not say what building he had targeted or when he planned to launch his attack. It also does not detail his interactions with Rupnow. Police in Madison say that discovering a motive for the killings is still a top priority and that there is nothing to suggest the suspect’s gender played a factor