Wisconsin School Shooting: Madison Residents Grieve as They Wait to Learn More

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Officials in Wisconsin were expected to give an update on Tuesday afternoon. The shooting left a student and a teacher dead and six others injured.

Yellow police tape hangs from two door handles at the Abundant Life Christian School as a guard stands inside, looking through the glass doors.
Abundant Life Christian School was closed on Tuesday as the investigation continued in Madison, Wis.

Dec. 17, 2024Updated 2:15 p.m. ET

Residents of Madison, Wis., were mourning on Tuesday after the attack at Abundant Life Christian School that one day earlier left a teenage student and a teacher dead and six other people injured.

The shooter, identified by the police as a 15-year-old female student, also died.

As a makeshift memorial grew on a sidewalk outside the school, families were left wondering how something so terrible could happen at the tightknit private school that they sought out for its academics and Christian values.

“It becomes a real community, a family in a sense,” said Michael Skalitzky, who has three grandsons enrolled at Abundant Life. “I just could never visualize that happening in that school.”

Plans for a vigil and a prayer service took shape on Tuesday as community members prayed for the families who lost their loved ones and for the recovery of the surviving victims, including four who remained hospitalized.

Madison residents were awaiting more information on the conditions of those victims, as well as what investigators had learned about the shooter. The city’s police chief, Shon F. Barnes, was scheduled to provide updates on Tuesday afternoon.

Abundant Life was founded in 1978 and grew rapidly in recent years, interviews and state records showed, with many families using a state voucher program that covers private school tuition for eligible students. A school official said on Monday that about 420 students were currently enrolled, up from the roughly 290 students that state records showed were enrolled three years ago.


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