A 15-year-old female shot and killed two people—a fellow student and a teacher—on Monday at Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wisconsin. An additional six people were injured, including two students who are in critical condition. Such cases involving female mass shooters are extremely rare, says James Alan Fox, a Northeastern University criminologist who has been studying mass killings for more than 40 years. “Ninety-five percent of mass shootings are committed by men,” says Fox, a research professor of criminology, law and public policy at Northeastern. “The overall majority of violent crimes—particularly homicide and gun homicide—are committed by men.”
Police were investigating the motive of the shooter, identified as Natalie Rupnow, who was found dead when police arrived on campus Monday morning.
