Father Charged for Providing School Shooter Daughter Guns | Crime Alert 05.22.25
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🗓️ 22 May 2025
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In her manifesto, school shooter called her father "stupid" for giving her access to guns. Police officers charged in wrongful death now training others to avoid their mistakes.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:05.3 | Crime alert, hourly update. Breaking Crime News now. I'm Sidney Sumner. In Madison, Wisconsin, |
| 0:10.8 | the father of a 15-year-old school shooter is facing felony charges for giving her access to the |
| 0:16.4 | guns used in a deadly attack. 42-year-old Jeffrey Rupnow appeared in court to face charges of two |
| 0:22.9 | counts of providing a firearm to a minor resulting in death and one count of contributing to the |
| 0:28.2 | delinquency of a child. If convicted, he faces up to 18 years behind bars. His daughter, Natalie Rupnau, |
| 0:35.8 | opened fire at abundant life Christian school in December, |
| 0:39.1 | killing teacher Aaron West and 14-year-old Ruby Bergera, wounding six others, then taking her own life. |
| 0:45.8 | According to investigators, Rupnau admitted to buying the guns for her and giving her the code to a safe. |
| 0:51.8 | In writings found after the shooting, Natalie blamed her father, |
| 0:55.4 | calling his actions stupid. Prosecutors requested $100,000 bail. The court set it at $20,000 |
| 1:02.2 | with GPS monitoring and strict conditions if he's released. A status hearing is set for June 9th. |
| 1:09.1 | In Colorado, three officers watch charge in the fatal police |
| 1:12.8 | shooting of Christian Glass are avoiding trial by helping train others on what went wrong. In June |
| 1:19.2 | 2022, 22-year-old Christian Glass experiencing a mental health crisis called 911 after his car |
| 1:26.2 | got stuck near the mountain town of Silver Plume, |
| 1:29.0 | Colorado. Body camera footage shows Glass holding a small knife inside his vehicle, while officers |
| 1:34.7 | from multiple agencies surrounded him, trying to coax him out. Clear Creek County Sheriff's |
| 1:40.1 | Deputy Andrew Buen eventually broke the window, leading to a confrontation where Glass was tased, then fatally shot. Buen eventually broke the window leading to a confrontation where Glass was |
| 1:45.2 | tased, then fatally shot. Buen was convicted in February of criminally negligent homicide and sentenced |
| 1:51.6 | to three years in prison, the maximum allowed. Six other officers were charged with failing to intervene. |
| 1:57.9 | Now three of them, Tim Collins, Brittany, and Ryan Benny have had those |
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