Natalie ‘Samantha’ Rupnow: Wisconsin School Shooter Underwent Therapy Over Troubled Home Life and Multiple Divorces of Her Parents [Video]

Court records reveal that the 15-year-old girl who fatally shot two people and injured six in a Wisconsin Christian school had been undergoing therapy due to her troubled home life with her parents, which included multiple divorces and remarriages.

Natalie “Samantha” Rupnow, who died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound after carrying out a deadly mass shooting at Abundant Life Christian School in Madison on Monday, often alternated between her parents’ homes every two or three days during their separation, according to records reviewed by Washington Post. Her parents, Melissa and Jeff Rupnow, first married in 2011, two years after Natalie was born. Natalie recently started using the first name Samantha.

Troubled Home Life

The couple first divorced in 2014, sharing custody of Natalie, with the agreement that she would primarily live with her mother.

They remarried in 2017, but divorced again in 2020, once again agreeing to share custody of their daughter.

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