Authorities said a 15-year-old girl killed a teacher and a teenager and wounded six others in a shooting at a private Christian school in Madison, Wisconsin, on Monday.

Natalie Rupnow has been identified as the shooter who opened fire in a study hall at Abundant Life Christian School, Madison Police Chief Shon Barnes said. Responding officers found Rupnow with a self-inflicted gunshot wound. She died on the way to a hospital.

Police spoke with Rupnow’s father and other cooperating family members and searched Rupnow’s home, Barnes said. He declined to provide further details about the shooter, partly out of respect for the family.

“He lost someone too,” Barnes said of Rupnow’s father. “That’s why we’re not going to rush the information. We will take our time and make sure we do our due diligence.”

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Police said a 15-year-old gunman is dead after killing a teacher and a student and wounding six others at Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wisconsin, on Monday. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)

Barnes said officers responded to a 911 call just before 11 a.m. from a second-grader reporting the shooting.

Barnes said Rupnow used a handgun in the shooting, although police have not yet determined a motive for the attack.

“I don’t know why, and I feel like if we knew why, we could prevent these things,” he told reporters.

Students walk to a bus as they leave the property following a shooting at Abundant Life Christian School on Monday, December 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)

The teacher and student killed in the shooting have not yet been identified.

Barnes said that of the six people wounded in the shooting, two students were in critical condition. A teacher and three students were also taken to hospital with less serious injuries, but two of them were later released.

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Barnes said he doesn’t believe the school, which serves 200 students according to the school’s website, has a resource officer. It also emerged that the school did not have metal detectors, but did have cameras and other security protocols.

Emergency vehicles are parked outside the clinic where parents were being reunited with their children following a shooting at Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wisconsin, on Monday, December 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Scott Bauer)

President Biden spoke with Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers and Madison Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway after the shooting and issued a separate statement calling the event “shocking and incomprehensible.”

“We can never accept senseless violence that traumatizes children and their families and tears entire communities apart,” Biden said.

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The FBI’s Milwaukee office said it has deployed agents to the scene to assist in the investigation.

Fox News’ Anders Hagstrom, Stepheny Price and Bradford Betz contributed to this report along with The Associated Press.