A trainer and pupil killed in a capturing earlier this week at a college in Madison, Wisconsin, had been recognized Wednesday by authorities.
The Dane County Medical Examiner’s Workplace mentioned in a information launch supplied to CBS Information that 42-year-old Erin West and 14-year-old Rubi Vergara had been fatally shot Monday morning at Considerable Life Christian College.
Preliminary examinations decided the 2 died of “homicidal firearm associated trauma.” Each had been pronounced useless on the scene, the medical expert mentioned.
A web based obituary on an area funeral website said Vergara was a freshman who leaves behind her mother and father, one brother, and a big prolonged household. It described her as “an avid reader” who “beloved artwork, singing and enjoying keyboard within the household worship band.”
West’s actual place with the college was unclear.
The medical expert additionally confirmed {that a} preliminary post-mortem discovered that the suspected shooter, 15-year-old Natalie Rupnow — a pupil on the identical faculty — was pronounced useless at an area hospital Monday of “firearm associated trauma.” Madison Chief of Police Shon F. Barnes had beforehand informed reporters that Rupnow was pronounced useless whereas being transported to a hospital.
Police had additionally beforehand said that she was believed to have died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
The capturing on the personal Christian Okay-12 faculty was reported simply earlier than 11 a.m. Monday. Along with the 2 folks killed and the shooter, six others had been wounded.
Police mentioned the capturing occurred in a classroom the place a examine corridor was going down involving college students from a number of grades.
A handgun was recovered after the capturing, Barnes mentioned, but it surely was unclear the place the gun got here from or what number of photographs had been fired. A regulation enforcement supply mentioned the weapon used within the capturing seems to have been a 9 mm pistol.
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