Abundant Life School Shooter was Influenced by Satanic Accelerationist Groups

The shooter, a 15-year-old girl, left behind clues pointing to a violent mish-mash of influences, including mass shooter fan clubs, incel culture, and Satanic accelerationist groups.

Immediately upon seeing that first image of the shooter, a disheveled girl with a cellphone in hand, shirt displaying the letters “KMFDM”, I knew I’d find her in the notorious TCC community. The 15-year-old, whose name was Natalie “Samantha” Rupnow, opened fire on her school library at Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, WI, killing at least one student and one teacher and leaving several people critically injured. The KMFSM on her shirt is a nod to one of the Columbine shooter’s favorite bands, an Easter egg pointing towards an unhealthy obsession with the two young men who changed history on April 20, 1999. TCC stands for “True Crime Community”, and while the acronym once encompassed a broad swath of people obsessed with serial killer documentaries and the like, it was completely stolen not too long ago by a niche group of hybristophiles – people who are obsessed with, and even sexually aroused by, mass killers.

I quickly glanced over the preliminary evidence and went back to my day job, confident that the still-breaking news would ultimately affirm her connection to TCC. But what I would soon uncover in Rupnow’s online footprint was something I was not expecting at all – A connection to the very same Satanic accelerationist networks I’d devoted the past two years of my life to researching, including to the infamous 764 network.

Natalie “Samantha” Rupnow, the identified shooter.