The daddy of a 15-year-old who shot and killed a instructor and fellow scholar at her Wisconsin Christian college final December has been arrested and charged with a number of felonies associated to the lethal assault, police mentioned.
Jeffrey Rupnow, 42, was arrested Thursday and charged with contributing to the delinquency of a kid and two counts of offering a harmful weapon to an individual underneath 18 leading to dying, the Madison Police Division introduced.
Rupnow’s daughter Natalie “Samantha” Rupnow, who died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound following the Dec. 16 capturing, had “common entry” to firearms and a “fascination with weapons and college shootings,” which was made evident by way of private objects recovered at her dwelling, mentioned Madison Police Chief John Patterson.
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These things included a self-written manifesto titled “Conflict In opposition to Humanity,” in addition to drawings and movies “all detailing curiosity to mass violence,” Patterson mentioned at a press convention.
A cardboard mannequin and hand-drawn flooring plans of Plentiful Life Christian Faculty, the place the capturing came about, have been additionally recovered on the dwelling she shared together with her father, in accordance with a prison grievance obtained by local station WMTV.
“The objects recovered have been disturbing, alarming, and they’d have led any common particular person to the [concern] of violence,” Patterson mentioned.
The elder Rupnow informed detectives that he had three rifles and 9 pistols inside a gun secure in his dwelling, all of which he had bought. He saved a further gun underneath his mattress, which he mentioned he deliberate to provide his daughter for Christmas, in accordance with the grievance.
“There was a gun secure within the dwelling. Based mostly on our investigation, it didn’t cease the teenager from having common entry to the firearms,” Patterson mentioned.
“I acquired the weapons by lies and manipulation, and my fathers stupidity,” the teenager wrote in paperwork recovered from her dwelling, in accordance with the grievance.
Rupnow, who didn’t have an legal professional listed as representing him, has his first court docket look scheduled for Friday.
