{"id":2380923,"date":"2024-12-17T11:06:02","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T16:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wi-police-chief-says-its-not-important-if-school-shooter-is-trans\/"},"modified":"2024-12-17T11:07:31","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T16:07:31","slug":"wi-police-chief-says-its-not-important-if-school-shooter-is-trans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wi-police-chief-says-its-not-important-if-school-shooter-is-trans\/","title":{"rendered":"WI Police Chief Says It&#8217;s &#8216;Not Important&#8217; If School Shooter Is Trans"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwi-police-chief-says-its-not-important-if-school-shooter-is-trans%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2380923&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>in Madison, Wisconsin, a tragic shooting occurred at the Abundant Life Christian School, where a 15-year-old girl named Natalie Rupnow\u2064 opened \u2062fire \u2062during a study hall session. The incident resulted in the deaths\u2062 of a teacher and a fellow student, with\u2062 six others injured, including two\u2064 students\u2062 in critical condition. Rupnow \u200blater took her\u200d own life. Law enforcement has reported that she may\u2062 have been struggling with personal issues, and there are unconfirmed claims that she wrote a manifesto prior \u2062to the \u200battack.<\/p>\n<p>Madison Police Chief shon Barnes emphasized that the\u200d shooter&#8217;s gender\u200b identity, which has been speculated upon, is not pertinent to\u2062 the \u2064investigation. He urged people to avoid \u200binjecting personal biases into discussions \u200bsurrounding the tragedy. The ongoing \u2062investigation\u2063 may further explore Rupnow&#8217;s background, which some reports \u2063suggest included \u200ban obsession with school shootings.<\/p>\n<p>The \u200dshooting has drawn \u2063parallels to a previous \u2064mass shooting at a Christian school in \u2062Nashville in March 2023,where a transgender individual also committed \u2063similar \u200cacts \u2064of \u200cviolence.This context\u200c fuels ongoing debates about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/9-year-old-girl-pepper-sprayed-during-interaction-with-rochester-police\/\" title=\"9-Year-Old Girl Pepper Sprayed During Interaction With Rochester Police\">mental health issues<\/a> \u200bamong\u200c youth in America and raises questions about the implications \u200bof identity in the discourse\u200b surrounding such violent incidents.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Wisconsin&rsquo;s capital city is in shock after a 15-year-old girl pulled out a 9mm pistol Monday morning and shot up her study hall, killing a teacher and a fellow student at the Christian school she attended before turning the weapon on herself and ending her life, Madison Police confirmed.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Natalie Rupnow injured six others, including two students with life-threatening wounds and a teacher and three other students who suffered non-life-threatening injuries in the attack on Madison&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alcs.us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Abundant Life Christian School<\/a>, according to police.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>While Madison <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityofmadison.com\/police\/chief\/bio.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Police Chief Shon Barnes<\/a> wasn&rsquo;t commenting on motive Monday evening, an unidentified law enforcement source told the Associated Press that the shooter &ldquo;had been dealing with problems and expressed some of those in writings,&rdquo; CNN <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/us\/live-news\/abundant-life-christian-school-shooting-madison-12-16-24\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a>. There were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/us\/live-news\/abundant-life-christian-school-shooting-madison-12-16-24#cm4rusx09001z356nm3j6t0dh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reports<\/a> that Rupnow, who police say liked to go by &ldquo;Samantha,&rdquo; had penned a manifesto, although Barnes said police had yet to verify the authenticity of the document. &ldquo;The good news,&rdquo; the chief <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=U-PCwwukPrw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said,<\/a> is that Madison police have shared the information with its partners at the FBI.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There&rsquo;s no doubt the suspected killer was disturbed, as evidenced by her violent outburst at the K-12 private school with a mission &ldquo;to develop students who are committed disciples of Jesus Christ through an excellent, comprehensive, Biblically-integrated educational program.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>She planned the attack in advance, a &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-administration-to-begin-removing-all-senate-confirmed-u-s-attorneys-appointed-under-trump\/\" title=\"Biden Administration To Begin Removing All Senate Confirmed U.S. Attorneys Appointed Under Trump\">law enforcement official familiar<\/a> with the investigation&rdquo; told CNN.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>&lsquo;I Don&rsquo;t Think That&rsquo;s Important&rsquo;<\/h2>\n<p>There was speculation Monday that the shooter was transgender, although other sources <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/mrandyngo\/status\/1868783656502018448?s=46\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">disputed<\/a> the claim. Some <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/mrandyngo\/status\/1868783656502018448?s=46\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a> she had an &ldquo;online obsession with school shooters.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Barnes insisted that he doesn&rsquo;t care whether Rupnow was transgender, as some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/us\/live-news\/abundant-life-christian-school-shooting-madison-12-16-24#cm4ruv64g000a356m1ij6y4bu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reports indicated<\/a>. It&rsquo;s not important, he said, when asked by a leftist reporter about &ldquo;misinformation&rdquo; online. The Madison journalist effectively wagged her finger at parental rights group for claiming the shooter was transgender, &ldquo;which is a reaction that we see across the country linked with mass shootings to claim that trans people are dangerous.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Barnes, a far-left police chief in one of the most LGBTQ agenda-pushing cities in America, said he wished people would &ldquo;leave their own personal biases out of this.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know whether Natalie was transgender or not and quite frankly I don&rsquo;t think that&rsquo;s even important. I don&rsquo;t think that&rsquo;s important at all,&rdquo; the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fbi-dive-team-joins-texas-search-for-missing-girl\/\" title=\"FBI Dive Team Joins Texas Search for Missing Girl\">chief told reporters<\/a> at an evening <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=U-PCwwukPrw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">press conference<\/a>. &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t think that whatever happened today has anything to do with how she or he or they my have wanted to identify &hellip;&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Barnes subsequently acknowledged that Rupnow&rsquo;s gender identity &ldquo;is something that may come out later.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>While investigators continue to search for answers, the transgender question could prove to be very important. Just ask the families at Nashville&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennessean.com\/story\/news\/education\/2024\/09\/24\/covenant-school-nashville-to-find-new-campus-after-mass-shooting-covenant-presbyterian-church\/75363410007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Covenant School<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>&lsquo;It is Vitally Important&rsquo;<\/h2>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/tennesseestar.com\/covenant-school-shooting\/police-may-not-finish-covenant-school-shooting-investigation-by-january-1-goal-as-mnpd-spokesman-says-no-hard-date\/tpappert\/2024\/12\/04\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">March 2023,<\/a> a 28-year-old woman who identified as a transgender man stormed into the private Christian elementary school and murdered three third-graders and three staff members before Metro Nashville Police officers fatally shot the killer.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Michael Patrick Leahy, CEO and editor-in-chief of <a href=\"https:\/\/starnewsdigitalmedia.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Star News Digital Media,<\/a> has been seeking the release of the Covenant killer&rsquo;s manifesto for a year and a half. He&rsquo;s a plaintiff in a <a href=\"https:\/\/tennesseestar.com\/news\/the-tennessee-stars-parent-company-files-lawsuit-demanding-metro-nashville-turn-over-covenant-killer-records\/mkittle\/2023\/05\/11\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">lawsuit <\/a>demanding the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/police-suv-plows-through-crowd-that-was-mobbing-his-car-while-responding-to-street-racing-in-tacoma-video\/\" title=\"Police SUV Plows Through Crowd that Was Mobbing His Car While Responding To Street Racing In Tacoma (VIDEO)\">police department turn<\/a> over the shooter&rsquo;s voluminous writings. Leahy&rsquo;s flagship publication, the Tennessee Star, has obtained and published <a href=\"https:\/\/tennesseestar.com\/covenant-school-shooting\/the-tennessee-star-releases-manifesto-left-by-transgender-covenant-school-killer-audrey-hale\/tpappert\/2024\/09\/03\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">dozens of pages<\/a> of the writings, screeds that offer a glimpse into the twisted mind of a mass shooter.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We clearly have a <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">huge mental health problem<\/a> with young people in America today,&rdquo; Leahy told The Federalist Monday night in a phone interview. &ldquo;It is very clear that the killer in Nashville suffered severe mental health problems and had in fact been treated for psychiatric difficulties for 22 years. Now, the reports indicate that a 15-year-old girl is responsible for the heinous murders today at a Christian school in Madison, Wis. She purportedly left behind a manifesto, according to some sources.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It is vitally important that these documents left behind by young mass murderers be released to the public so that we can understand the deep problems of mental illness that drove them to these actions, so that we can prevent such terrible crimes in the future,&rdquo; Leahy added.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As the Tennessee Star has <a href=\"https:\/\/tennesseestar.com\/news\/fbi-declines-to-confirm-legacy-tokens-memo-sent-to-nashville-police-which-raised-precedent-for-destruction-of-covenant-killer-writings\/tpappert\/2024\/06\/12\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported,<\/a> the FBI hastily acts to thwart the release of such documents. In the Covenant killer case, the federal agency sent a <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1kiwP8-BKlAXVCm0gCf3hbGpf__pPAEFx\/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">memo<\/a> to the Nashville PD &ldquo;strongly&rdquo; discouraging the disclosure of so-called <a href=\"https:\/\/tennesseestar.com\/news\/fbi-memo-on-protection-of-legacy-tokens-sent-to-nashville-police-in-may-2023-opposed-release-of-covenant-killer-documents-cited-destruction-precedent\/tpappert\/2024\/06\/05\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&ldquo;legacy tokens&rdquo;<\/a> left behind by mass shooters. The memo was sent just two days after Star News Digital Media filed a federal lawsuit <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1dIrAvvCE817XHAEg5O2dyVfCHW3Dua-J\/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">against the FBI<\/a> demanding the agency release the trans killer&rsquo;s writings. As former national political editor at the Star News Network, I, too, am a plaintiff in that lawsuit, plodding in federal court for the better part of two years.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The memo explains that mass shooters &ldquo;often leave behind items [memory tokens] to claim credit for the attack and\/or articulate the motivation behind it.&rdquo; The 90 pages the Tennessee Star published include a wealth of insight from a severely mentally ill 28-year-old woman who identified as a male named Aidan.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As the Star reported, the FBI recommended withholding such items from the public, citing concerns about &ldquo;conspiracy theories,&rdquo; copycat attacks, and advancing &ldquo;the false narrative that the majority of attackers are mentally ill.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The FBI also raised the &lsquo;existing precedent&rsquo; for the destruction of &lsquo;legacy tokens,&rsquo; noting &lsquo;the decision to destroy the &lsquo;Basement Tapes&rsquo; produced by the offenders of the Columbine High School attack,&rsquo;&rdquo; the publication reported.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Leahy notes the memo also argues that releasing manifestos and other legacy tokens could have negative impacts on &ldquo;certain vulnerable communities.&rdquo; The Biden administration has<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/11\/21\/3-of-the-trans-people-eulogized-by-biden-admin-died-attacking-innocent-strangers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> joined<\/a> LGBT activists in painting the trans population as <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/04\/04\/how-the-transgender-lobbys-obsession-with-its-own-victimhood-breeds-violence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">under the constant threat<\/a> of violence. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Madison&rsquo;s police chief on Monday repeatedly thanked the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives for their quick response and assistance at the Christian school.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;In this instance it appears to me the FBI may have done the same thing in Madison that they did in Nashville in 2023, that is swoop in and take control of information and refuse to release it,&rdquo; Leahy said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Matt Kittle is a senior elections correspondent for The Federalist. An award-winning investigative reporter and 30-year veteran of print, broadcast, and online journalism, Kittle previously served as the executive director of Empower Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 15-year-old girl shot a teacher and student in Wisconsin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":656,"featured_media":2380924,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Screenshot-2024-12-17-at-2.01.33-AM-1024x523.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[35975,46970,42544,46969],"class_list":["post-2380923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-public-safety","tag-school-shooter","tag-transgender-issues","tag-wi-police-chief"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Screenshot-2024-12-17-at-2.01.33-AM-1024x523.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/656"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2380923"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2380927,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380923\/revisions\/2380927"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2380924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2380923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2380923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2380923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}