Good evening. I'm Amna Nawaz. And I'm Jeff Bennett. On the news hour tonight, multiple people are killed in a mass shooting at a Christian school in Wisconsin, adding yet another community to the list of those roiled by gun violence.

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Welcome to the News Hour. At least two people were killed and six others were injured at a private school in Madison, Wisconsin this morning.

The suspected shooter was also found dead at the scene. Officials told the Associated Press she was a 17-year-old female student at the school.

Authorities are now investigating her motive and another American community is reeling from mass gun violence. In a tragic scene far too familiar in America, police this morning rushed to respond to reports

of an active shooter, this time at the abundant life Christian school in Madison, Wisconsin.

Police say a teacher and a teenage student were killed.

Two other students were in critical condition this evening.

Madison Police Chief Sean Barnes.

To be honest with you, I'm feeling a little dismayed now, so close to Christmas.

Every child, every person in that building is a victim and will be a victim

forever. And these types of trauma don't just go away. And we need to figure out and try to piece

together what exactly happening. And right now my heart is heavy for my community.

Officers say the shooter, who they also confirmed is dead, was a teenage student at the school,

a small private institution in a residential Madison neighborhood, serving 390 students

from kindergarten through 12th grade.

Chief Barnes said that officers did not fire their weapons today and found the suspect who used a handgun

in the attack dead inside the school building when they entered. A motive is still unknown.

This year alone, across the U.S., more than 150 people were killed or wounded in at least

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