2nd grader referred to as 911 to report Wisconsin college taking pictures: ‘Let that soak in’

A second grader referred to as 911 to report the lethal mass taking pictures at Ample Life Christian College in Madison, Wisconsin, police stated.

“I will let that soak in for a minute,” Madison Police Chief Shon Barnes stated throughout a press briefing whereas offering a timeline on the Monday morning taking pictures. “A second grade scholar referred to as 911 at 10:57 a.m. to report a taking pictures in school.”

A scholar and trainer had been killed within the taking pictures, police stated. Two college students had been hospitalized in vital situation, whereas three college students and a trainer additionally suffered non-life-threatening accidents, police stated. The suspected shooter, a youngster who was a scholar on the college, died of an obvious self-inflicted gunshot wound, police stated.

The taking pictures occurred inside a classroom throughout a examine corridor with college students from a number of grades, Barnes stated.

“To me, it makes my coronary heart skip a beat, to consider that,” Barnes stated of the younger scholar calling 911 to report the taking pictures. “We educate our youngsters, if one thing’s fallacious, name what, 911. And so the kid was ready to try this.”

Barnes stated the 911 dispatch communicators are educated to speak to kids.

College students in kindergarten by means of twelfth grade attend the small Christian college.

Nora Gottschalk, an elementary college scholar at Ample Life Christian College, advised Chicago ABC station WLS that she was within the hallway when she heard the gunfire.

“I used to be altering from my footwear to my boots to go to lunch, ‘trigger I’ve recess after,” the second grader advised the station. “However then I heard the taking pictures. And screams.”

Nora was nonetheless barefoot within the hours after the taking pictures.

“We went to the church proper subsequent to my college, and everybody was panicking nonetheless, as a result of a number of police had been there,” she advised WLS.

Her dad, Karl Gottschalk, stated he was on the highway for work when he noticed first responders.

“I noticed the cops driving by, then I acquired the textual content from the college,” he advised WLS. “That basically hit me onerous as I am driving down the highway, seeing ambulances.”

Police recognized the suspected shooter as 15-year-old Natalie Rupnow, who glided by Samantha.

Police haven’t but recommended any motive for the assault nor stated whether or not they consider the victims had been particularly focused.

“This has been a tough day for our metropolis. This has been a tragic day,” Barnes stated. “That is going to be a day that will probably be etched within the collective minds and recollections of all these from Madison.”