>> Details continue to unfold following the devastating
shooting inside a classroom at a Madison Christian school five
days ago. According to the AP, a man in California has been
ordered by a court there to turn in his weapons and ammunition
after interacting with the 15 year old shooter online about
plotting a mass shooting with her in Madison, two members of
the school community were shot to death, and the 15 year old
took her own life, according to police. The teacher killed was
42 year old Aaron Macheel West. She was a substitute
coordinator. The student, who also died at the scene was 14
year old Ruby Patricia Vergara. She was a freshman "Here& Now".
Reporter Aditi Debnath has more on the aftermath of the
violence. Reporter to a city mourned at a candlelight vigil
outside the state Capitol. >> Coming together following the
shocking violence on Monday at Abundant Life Christian School
in Madison. That's when a teenage girl shot and killed a
fellow student. A teacher, and then herself inside the school.
I pray for you. Jackson Ida went to the vigil to support his
friends at Abundant Life. >> It was just a whole range of
like, worried ness and sadness and confusion.
>> Three dead, six wounded and hospitalized. Two of the victims
suffering grave injuries. Executive director of the school
system that manages abundant life. Chuck Moore was at the
vigil. >> Please pray for the two that
are still in the hospital. It's life threatening and they may
not survive. >> Police are still piecing
together what happened. >> The first officers arrived at
11 a.m. And immediately went in the building.
>> After determining the shooter had taken her own life and
transporting the injured to a hospital. Police prioritized
Reunifying students and teachers with their families. Eight miles
away, police served a search warrant at the shooter's family
home looking for evidence. >> They kind of all just swarmed
right across the street to where it happened.
>> Police identified the shooter as Natalie Rupnow, a 15 year old
student at Abundant Life. >> We're a small, private
Christian school here on the east side of Madison.
>> Barbara Wiers is an administrator at Abundant Life.
She shared details about the school's security measures,
which include security cameras and regular lockdown drills.
>> When they heard lockdown, lockdown and nothing else, they
knew it was real. >> Abundant life has been closed
since the shooting. Neighbor McKenzie Truitt visited the
school to add a poinsettia plant to a sidewalk memorial honoring
the victims of the shooting. >> My younger brother went
there. I have a lot of friends, family, friends that go there as
well. >> Truitt says her brother knows
the victims personally. >> It affects everybody. I mean,
when you go through a trauma like this, it's horrible. Even
if you weren't directly impacted, it still causes a lot
of harm to you mentally. Just knowing what other people are
going through. >> The rest of Madison schools
stayed open, but some were placed on a brief, secure hold
after receiving hoax threats. The Madison School District
superintendent told those gathered at the vigil that
prevention of future school violence goes beyond physical
security. >> I think it'd be easy to say
that we're going to work on safety, we're going to work on
creating safe schools, and I don't think that goes far enough
because we know what many of those things are. What I plead
to you tonight is that we find a new way, a deeper way, a more
meaningful way to connect with our community, children to
children, children to staff, families to families.
>> For Jackson Ida School safety is key to empowering youth and
preventing violence. >> I mean, the whole point of
all of this is to be able to go and to get education so you can
become the people who will hopefully be able to make this
never happen again in the futur. >> Reporting from Madison. I'm