The shooting at Madison's Abundant Life Christian School
Overview · reviewed October 28, 2026
On December 16, 2024, a 15-year-old student, Natalie Rupnow, opened fire in a study hall at Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wisconsin, killing a teacher and a fellow student.[1][2]In May 2025 her father, Jeffrey Rupnow, was charged with in connection with the shooting.[2][3]
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In May 2025 her father, Jeffrey Rupnow, was charged with in connection with the shooting.[2][3]
Coverage over time
Share of tracked outlets · weekly (UTC)
9%0%
Dec 20242026this week
LeftCenterRightLighter bar: this week so far
Each bar is the share of the outlets on our Left / Center / Right rating scale that we tracked publishing that week which carried reporting on this story, split by the outlets' ratings. We track more outlets now than in the archive, so a share keeps earlier and later weeks comparable. An outlet counts once a week however much it published, and outlets in one ownership or syndication group count as one on each side they appear on. A rating describes the outlet, not the report. A gap means no such reports were collected that week, not that nothing was reported anywhere. Weeks run Monday to Sunday in UTC, so a report published on a Sunday evening in US Eastern time counts in the next week.
Weekly counts, outlets and reports (2 weeks with coverage)
Outlets on the rating scale that carried this story each week, of the outlets tracked that week, newest first
Week of (UTC)
Left
Center
Right
Of tracked
Share
Receipts
May 5, 2025
6
8
3
17 of 201
8%
Dec 16, 2024
3
12
6
21 of 226
9%
Latest coverage
The newest reporting in this story's record.
May 7, 2025 · first reported · Headline from ABC 7 Los Angeles
The shooting came on the school's "Ugly Christmas Sweater Day," just before the winter break.[4] A California judge ordered a man to surrender his guns after police learned he had messaged the teenager about his own plans to attack a government building.[5] The criminal complaint against her father described how she had struggled with her parents' divorce and written a piece titled "War Against Humanity."[3]
