The police in Madison, Wis., were working to establish a motive for the attack, which left a 14-year-old student and 42-year-old teacher dead and six others injured.
The medical examiner in Madison, Wis., on Wednesday named the two victims who died in the shooting this week at Abundant Life Christian School.
They were identified as Rubi P. Vergara, 14, a student and resident of Madison, and Erin M. West, 42, who lived in nearby DeForest, Wis., and was listed in a staff directory as the substitute coordinator at Abundant Life.
The surviving victims, two of whom remained hospitalized in critical condition as of the latest police update, have not been publicly identified.
An Abundant Life student, a 15-year-old girl, carried out the attack on Monday, which also left six people wounded, officials said. The authorities said she died of a self-inflicted gunshot.
The shooting took place during the last week of classes before Christmas break, and it sent emergency responders scrambling to the small, close-knit school on Madison’s east side. Much about the shooting remained unclear as investigators looked for a motive and detectives searched a home that they believed was connected to the attack.
Here’s what we know:
A second-grade teacher called 911 at 10:57 a.m. to report a shooting inside the school, Chief Shon F. Barnes of the Madison police said, and law enforcement officers began arriving three minutes later. (The chief had earlier said it was a second-grade student who made the call, an error he corrected on Tuesday afternoon.)
