Details Emerge on Wisconsin School Shooter’s Unstable Home Life

Natalie Rupnow shuffled between living with mother and father as they divorced and remarried each other three times.

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Shooter Natalie Rupnow, 15, shuffled between living with mother and father. Via YouTube

The parents who the Wisconsin Christian school shooter blamed and called “scum” in her manifesto had a tumultuous relationship, divorcing and remarrying each other a total of three times, a trauma that kept her from remaining in a stable home, according to a report.

Natalie Rupnow, who killed two people and injured another six, was in therapy due to an “unsettled childhood” where custody agreements between her mother and father forced her to shuttle between houses as often as every two to three days, according to court documents obtained by the Washington Post.

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