A trainer and pupil killed in a shooting earlier this week at a college in Madison, Wisconsin, had been recognized Wednesday by authorities.
The Dane County Medical Examiner’s Office stated in a information launch supplied to CBS News that 42-year-old Erin West and 14-year-old Rubi Vergara had been fatally shot Monday morning at Abundant Life Christian School.
Preliminary examinations decided the 2 died of “homicidal firearm associated trauma.” Both had been pronounced lifeless on the scene, the medical expert stated.
An on-line obituary on a neighborhood funeral website stated Vergara was a freshman who leaves behind her dad and mom, one brother, and a big prolonged household. It described her as “an avid reader” who “beloved artwork, singing and taking part in keyboard within the household worship band.”
West’s precise 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 similar college — was pronounced lifeless at a neighborhood hospital Monday of “firearm associated trauma.” Madison Chief of Police Shon F. Barnes had beforehand advised reporters that Rupnow was pronounced lifeless whereas being transported to a hospital.
Police had additionally earlier acknowledged that she was believed to have died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
The capturing on the non-public Christian Ok-12 college was reported simply earlier than 11 a.m. Monday. In addition to the 2 folks killed and the shooter, six others had been wounded.
Police stated 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 stated, however it was unclear the place the gun got here from or what number of pictures had been fired. A regulation enforcement supply stated the weapon used within the capturing seems to have been a 9 mm pistol.
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