Natalie 'Samantha' Rupnow's potential target revealed as survivor's mom details how shooter, 15, wore combat boots and pounded energy drinks
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A mother of two students who survived the Wisconsin school shooting has revealed chilling new details about shooter Natalie 'Samantha' Rupnow and who may have been her potential target. Rupnow, 15, killed a student, a teacher, and then herself at Abundant Life Christian School in Madison shortly before 11am on Monday. Six others were injured, two were said to be in 'life-threatening' condition.
![[People are seen at a reunification center after a shooting at Abundant Life Christian School in Madison]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/18/06/93263115-14204397-image-a-2_1734504088252.jpg)
Lyndsay O'Connor, whose children were at school on the day hell broke lose, shared her fear and dread over how much worse it could have been. She said that Rupnow walked right past her daughter Mackenzie's classroom despite the door being open on her way to the study hall where she eventually opened fire.
![[While Rupnow is rumored to have 'mourned for friends' and described herself as a loaner, O'Connor suggested she was 'very isolated' but did have some sort of clique at the school]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/18/06/93263109-14204397-image-a-3_1734504143399.jpg)
'Mackenzie said she walked by our door; she went to that room,' O'Connor told Wisconsin Right Now. O'Connor speculated that the regular study hall teacher, who was not there due to a 'planned absence,' may have been Rupnow's target. 'We don't know if her target was the original teacher or just the kids in the class. She would have had to walk by the door and the door was open.'.
![[Police tape is stretched across the doors of Abundant Life Christian School as police continue to investigate]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/18/06/93263107-14204397-image-a-4_1734504148204.jpg)
She held the usual teacher in high esteem, someone who had made the study hall a 'comforting place' with her own hand-picked students whom the teacher said needed extra help, according O'Connor. The parent of two of the survivors of Monday's school shooting in Wisconsin has revealed chilling new details about shooter Natalie 'Samantha' Rupnow and who may have been her potential target.
![[Police stand guard outside the home of Rupnow. O'Connor denied, despite Rupnow's isolation and suggestions by the Madison police chief to the contrary, that the girl faced bullying]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/18/06/93263113-14204397-image-a-5_1734504156922.jpg)
