A group that glorifies school shooters and spreads gore content influenced the Abundant Life School shooter and continues to harm vulnerable children.
EMILY HAMER
Lee Enterprises Public Service Journalism Team
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The Anti-Defamation League analyzed the "striking similarities" between Natalie Rupnow and Solomon Henderson's online footprints. Read their study online at: go.madison.com/ADL-study
EMILY HAMER
Lee Enterprises Public Service Journalism Team
MADISON, Wis. — Madison school shooter Natalie “Samantha” Rupnow is being idolized and copied in the same violent online community that helped radicalize her — a group that has ties to six other recent K-12 school shooters, experts say.
Community members write messages to those who died in the shooting at Abundant Life Christian School on hearts hanging from crosses in December 2024 at the state Capitol in Madison.
Madison police officers control the perimeter of the suspect's residence on the North Side the day after a shooting left two students and a teacher dead at Abundant Life Christian School.
Emergency personnel gather outside Antioch High School after a shooting on Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025 in Nashville, Tennessee. The shooter followed a similar pathway to online radicalization as the Madison school shooter.
Parents, students and others gathered for a community support meeting at Mount Horeb High School Thursday, a day after an armed student was killed outside the middle school in May 2024.
Jeffrey Rupnow, father of Abundant Life Christian School shooter Natalie Rupnow, at his preliminary hearing in June. He has been charged with three felonies related to contributing to his daughter's delinquency and allegedly providing her with access to guns.
Madison West High School students march to the state Capitol in support of more stringent gun control laws Dec. 20, 2024, following the Abundant Life shooting.
The Anti-Defamation League analyzed the "striking similarities" between Natalie Rupnow and Solomon Henderson's online footprints. Read their study online at: go.madison.com/ADL-study
Community members write messages to those who died in the shooting at Abundant Life Christian School on hearts hanging from crosses in December 2024 at the state Capitol in Madison.
Madison police officers control the perimeter of the suspect's residence on the North Side the day after a shooting left two students and a teacher dead at Abundant Life Christian School.
Jeffrey Rupnow, father of Abundant Life Christian School shooter Natalie Rupnow, at his preliminary hearing in June. He has been charged with three felonies related to contributing to his daughter's delinquency and allegedly providing her with access to guns.
Parents, students and others gathered for a community support meeting at Mount Horeb High School Thursday, a day after an armed student was killed outside the middle school in May 2024.
Madison West High School students march to the state Capitol in support of more stringent gun control laws Dec. 20, 2024, following the Abundant Life shooting.
Emergency personnel gather outside Antioch High School after a shooting on Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025 in Nashville, Tennessee. The shooter followed a similar pathway to online radicalization as the Madison school shooter.