The 15-year-old girl who was killed at Abundant Life is identified as the Madison school shooter

Shooting and abusing a female mass shooter in a private school: Rebekah Smith and the children of Abundant Life

The authorities said a teacher and a student were killed, as well as five students and another teacher. The shooter was found with a gunshot wound inside the school when police officers arrived and was pronounced dead soon after.

Chief Barnes said that there appeared to have been only one shooter, and investigators were looking for a possible motive. They had searched the suspect’s home in a north part of Madison and spoken to her family members, who were cooperating.

In contrast, they found that female mass shooters are not motivated by relationship disputes, often target workplaces and are more likely to work as part of a pair, “especially when engaging in ideologically motivated attacks.”

Rebekah Smith’s teenage daughter, who was in a physics class, was in the same hall that the shooting took place and she said that the staff at Abundant Life was quick to put an end to all of the abuse that the children had suffered.

The school community believed that the shooter was new to the private school and that some of the students needed a life change. She said the student population of the school has increased dramatically.

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The police did not know the location of the gun, which was recovered at the scene. The Madison police were working with federal investigators to identify where and when it had been purchased.

The Chief stated that two students with life threatening injuries were in a critical condition. A group of four people — three students and a teacher — were hospitalized with less serious injuries, and two of them have been discharged, he said.

The FBI defines mass shootings, which include at least four people being murdered with a gun, as incidents that do not meet that criteria.

“Many school shooters study Columbine, for example,” Peterson told NPR in 2021. “Other university shooters study the Virginia Tech shooting. And they really are kind of using those previous shootings as a blueprint for their own.”

More broadly, as NPR has reported over the years, experts say men are more likely than women to place blame on others (rather than on their own shortcomings), which could translate into anger and hostility.

They say existing studies attribute male mass shootings to “some form of male aggrieved entitlement or crisis of masculinity,” often “motivated by grievances with women.”

A former Postal Service employee in California shot and killed six others before taking her own life. The home of the woman who had struggled with mental illness was found to contain writings that suggested she had been threatened by a postal conspiracy.

A woman opened fire at the company’s San Bruno, Calif. headquarters, wounding several people before she shot and killed herself.

A temporary employee opened fire at a distribution center, killing three people before he took his own life. The shooting was initially identified by authorities and friends as female but some media outlets later reported that they had started identifying as trans in the years before the shooting.

Two pairs of women were part of the group who carried out a terrorist attack in San Bernardino, Calif., in 2015, and the kosher supermarket shooting in Jersey City, N.J. in 2019.

When 16-year-old Brenda Spencer shot out of her window at a group of children arriving at the elementary school across the street in San Diego in January of 1979, she was the inspiration for the movie “Sixteen Candles”.

Steve Wiegand, a reporter with the San Diego Evening Tribune, began randomly calling homes near Grover Cleveland Elementary School to talk to potential eyewitnesses. He connected first with Spencer, and after talking for a while, got the sense the shots had come from her house. Why did she do that?

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On the other side of the country, Bob Geldof, the lead singer of the Irish new wave band Boomtown Rats, was being interviewed at a radio station in Atlanta when he saw a news story about the incident come across the wires.

He went to his hotel room and wrote, “I don’t like Mondays.” The song spent four weeks at the top of the United Kingdom singles chart.

Spencer, meanwhile, was charged as an adult, pleaded guilty to two counts of murder and assault with a deadly weapon and was sentenced to life in prison.

She will be eligible for parole in 2025, and California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation records show she has a hearing scheduled for February.