The daddy of college shooter Natalie “Samantha” Rupnow, who killed two folks and wounded six others on the Plentiful Life Christian College in Madison, Wisconsin, inspired the 15-year-old to observe her weapons-handling abilities within the months main as much as Monday’s bloodshed, based on a evaluation of his on-line exercise.

In August, Jeff Rupnow – who was unable to be reached on Tuesday – posted {a photograph} on Fb of what seems to be his shotgun-wielding daughter taking pictures clay pigeons at a neighborhood gun membership.

“Is that kiddo?” a buddy commented.

“Positive is!!!!” Rupnow, the daddy of 1, replied. “We joined NBSC this spring and we have now been loving all [sic] each second of it!”

The North Bristol Sportsman’s Membership, or NBSC, is positioned in Solar Prairie, a suburb of 35,000 roughly 20 miles northeast of Madison. Particular person memberships value $75 yearly, and household memberships go for $90, plus an annual rifle/pistol vary premium of $25. The NBSC youth program welcomes youngsters as younger as 9, based on the membership’s web site.

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Within the picture on her father’s Fb web page, Natalie Rupnow is carrying a t-shirt emblazoned with the emblem of the venerable German electro-industrial band KMFDM. The highest is just like ones worn by teenage mass shooter Eric Harris, who in 1999, with classmate Dylan Klebold, shot and killed 15 college students at Littleton, Colorado’s Columbine Excessive College.

After the Columbine bloodbath, the members of KMFDM — which stands for Kein Mehrheit für die Mitleid, which interprets to “No Pity for the Majority” — condemned the bloodshed, calling themselves “sick and appalled” by what had occurred.

“From the start, our music has been a press release towards battle, oppression, fascism and violence towards others,” the band introduced, earlier than making reference to the truth that the Columbine taking pictures came about on April twentieth, the identical day the band’s newest album was launched — which additionally occurred to be the anniversary of Adolf Hitler’s birthday.

“[N]one among us condone any Nazi beliefs in any respect,” the announcement mentioned.

Police nonetheless haven’t decided a motive, however Madison Police Chief Shon Barnes advised reporters on Tuesday that investigators are wanting right into a “mixture of things,” together with the likelihood that Rupnow had been bullied. Jeff and Melissa Rupnow, who was additionally unable to be reached, are reportedly cooperating with police.

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Within the aftermath of Monday’s unthinkable occasions, police raided the Rupnow dwelling in Madison’s Sherman Village neighborhood, approaching the three-bedroom home in an armored automobile and forcing their means inside utilizing flash-bang grenades.

Adam De Wilde, who lives straight throughout the road and watched the entire thing occur, at first thought he was witnessing a drug bust. Solely later did he discover out his teenage neighbor, who died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound earlier than police responded to the Plentiful Life college, had been behind the kilings that instantly solid a pall over the Midwestern faculty city.

“I’ve talked to a few [other] neighbors, and it’s simply disappointment,” De Wilde advised The Impartial. “It’s simply unhappy to assume {that a} child awakened within the morning and grabbed a gun and went to high school, and so they’re your neighbor.”

His spouse, Suzy De Wilde, mentioned she has no alternative however to gaze out on the Rupnow residence on a really common foundation.

“Day-after-day, I wash my dishes and I see that home,” she mentioned. “It’s f*****g loopy that that’s the place the shooter lived… Day-after-day, I get to have a look at that entrance door now. How do you reside with these reminders in all places?”

President Joe Biden, who’s a month away from the top of his single time period in workplace, known as Monday’s taking pictures “stunning and unconscionable.”