‘Transgender or not’? Christian school shooter identified as 15-year-old girl who died en route to hospital

The shooter who killed a teacher and a student at Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wis., on Monday, and injured seven others now has been identified as Natalie Rupnow, 15, who went by the name “Samantha.”

“The shooter has now been identified as 15-year-old Natalie Rupnow, who went by the name Samantha. She was a student at the school, and evidence suggests she died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound,” Shon Barnes, Madison police chief, said in a statement. “The official cause of death will be released by the Dane County Medical Examiner pending the conclusion of their examination. She was pronounced deceased while in transport to a local hospital. A teacher and a teenage student were pronounced dead at the scene at that school.”

The A report in the Daily Caller News Foundation said authorities got a 9-1-1 call just before 11 a.m. on Monday from a second-grader in the school to reported the shooting.