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Last night a vigil was held in Madison for the teacher and a teenage student who died dead after a shooting.

Neither of the victims have been named, nor any of those injured.

Another vigil is due to take place later today at a nearby community centre.

We can bring you another clip of the parent of a student at Abundant Life Christian School who recounts yesterday's "traumatic" experience of getting to the school as soon as she could.

"You don't think you're going to go through this," she says, adding that her daughter is safe.

"I bring my daughter to school knowing this happens in the world, that people are struggling."

Police revealed yesterday that the emergency call they received over the school shooting came from a child no older than seven or eight years old.

Madison Police Chief Shon Barnes said the child who rang 911 just before 11:00 local time (17:00 GMT) was in the second grade. "Let that soak in for a minute," he told reporters.

Others who witnessed the attack have described what they saw to local media.

Nora Gottschalk, aged just eight, told CNN affiliate WISC that she was getting ready for lunch when the shots rang out. She saw a teacher who was injured screaming for help. "I was really scared and I was really sad," she said.

Adler Jean-Charles, who is in sixth grade, said he heard two gunshots when he was in English class. "Some people started crying and then we just waited until the police came," he told WISC.

Read more: Second-grade pupil called 911 over Wisconsin school shooting

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A memorial to the victims of the shooting has formed outside the Abundant Life Christian School.

Well-wishers have laid flowers and brightly coloured candles by the entrance to the school in Madison.

Later tonight, at 18:00 local time (00:00 GMT), a candlelight vigil will be held at a local youth community centre.

We've been hearing from survivors of yesterday's shooting, and parents of children who attend the Abundant Life Christian School.

In the video below, Nora Gottschalk, who is eight years old and one of the survivors, says she was getting ready to have lunch when she heard a teacher screaming "help".

Her father Karl Gottschalk says it's very sad for the children that were present during the shooting, adding that it really scared him thinking it could have been one of his own children.

Mireille Jen-Charles, the mother of another survivor, says: "This is not OK. If your kids have school they are not OK, if they are at church they are not OK."

"Where are they going to be safe?" she adds.

Ahead of the press conference, let's recap what we know about Monday;s shooting so far:

• A teenage pupil and a teacher were killed and six others injured in a shooting Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wisconsin

• None of the victims have been named yet
• Two of those injured are in a life-threatening condition. Four others were taken to hospital and two of them have since been released
• The alleged attacker has been named by police as 15-year-old Natalie Rupnow, who also goes by Samantha
• The shooting took place in a study hall where there were students from various grades
• Rupnow also died in the attack - police believe from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, but they have not commented on the motive for the attack
• Authorities were alerted to it when a child aged seven or eight rang 911 just before 11:00 local time (17:00 GMT) on Monday
• US President Joe Biden described the shooting as "shocking and unconscionable" - and called on politicians to act immediately on legislation that could prevent more gun violence

We're restarting our live coverage of Monday's deadly school shooting in Wisconsin, with police set to give an update in just under an hour's time.

On Monday, a 15-year-old girl allegedly opened fire on students at Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, killing one teenage pupil and a teacher, police said.

Six others were injured in the attack, two of whom are said to have life-threatening injuries.

The alleged attacker, named by authorities as Natalie Rupnow, is believed to have died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

None of the victims have yet been named by police and a motive for the attack is not yet clear.

Stay with us as we bring you the latest.

Police say a student opened fire with a handgun on Monday morning, killing a teacher and a student at Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wisconsin just over a week before Christmas.

US media has reported the suspect, who died of self-inflicted injuries before police arrived, was a female student.

Here are some of the other key details we know so far:

• Six other people were injured in the attack, which occurred one week before students were to go on break for the winter holidays
• None of the victims have yet been named

• Police are interviewing witnesses and students, and say this could help reveal a motive
• US President Joe Biden called on Congress to "act now" and protect children from "this scourge of gun violence"
• The K-12 Violence Project has counted more than 300 school shootings in the US this year. These include events where a gun is brandished or fired, or a bullet hits school property for any reason, regardless of the number of victims

We're wrapping up our live coverage of this shooting.

You can follow any further developments in the Abundant Life Christian School shooting here.

According to the Gun Violence Archive, so far in 2024 there have been around 16,000 firearms deaths - excluding suicides - across the US.

Researchers say that there have nearly 500 mass shootings so far this year.

The numbers are actually trending downwards from pandemic-era highs of more than 20,000 deaths and more than 600 mass shootings in both 2021 and 2022.

But the toll will still be enough to put the US near the top of the list of countries where gun violence kills the most people.

Countries such as Venezuela and El Salvador have higher per capita gun death rates than the US. But rates are much lower in Canada and other developed countries in Europe, according to Pew Research.

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Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers says "there are no words to describe the devastation and heartbreak" the state is experiencing after the shooting at Abundant Life Christian School this morning.

He confirms the US and Wisconsin flags will be flow at "half-staff across the state immediately until sunset on Sun., Dec. 22, 2024".

"As a father, a grandfather, and as governor, it is unthinkable that a kid or an educator might wake up and go to school one morning and never come home," Evers says.

"This should never happen, and I will never accept this as a foregone reality or stop working to change it.

As details of the shooting continue to emerge, FBI agents from the Milwaukee field office have confirmed that they are at the scene and assisting local law enforcement agencies.

Other agencies that responded to the shooting on Monday include the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), police officers from Wisconsin State Patrol, and the Dane County Sheriff's Office.

The suspect in the school shooting was a female student, CNN and Associated Press are reporting.

Both outlets are citing unnamed law enforcement officials.

A police briefing from earlier today said the teenaged suspect was already dead when police arrived at the school.

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President Joe Biden has just released a statement denouncing the attack in Madison today and other gun attacks at US schools.

"We need Congress to act. Now," he says as he invokes the names of US communities where school shootings have taken place, adding Madison to the list.

"It is unacceptable that we are unable to protect our children from this scourge of gun violence. We cannot continue to accept it as normal," he says. "Students across our country should be learning how to read and write – not having to learn how to duck and cover."

Biden, who is due to leave office next month, says he has "taken aggressive action to combat the gun violence epidemic... But more is needed."

"We can never accept senseless violence that traumatizes children, their families, and tears entire communities apart," he adds.

Mike Wendling
Reporting from Chicago

Today’s shooting happened on the east side of Madison - a mid-sized city of about 270,000 people in south-central Wisconsin.

Madison is a fairly quiet and prosperous place, 200km (124 miles) north-west of Chicago, built around five lakes and surrounded by the vast, flat rural stretches of the US Midwest.

It’s the state capital and home to the University of Wisconsin, along with a host of technology, health care and other businesses - and skews younger and more progressive than the surrounding region.

In 2023, according to police statistics, there were a total of 10 murders in the city, four of which were related to domestic or partner violence.

Today's shooting took place at the Abundant Life Christian School on the east side of Madison, Wisconsin.

In the post below, local Guy Nelson says more than a dozen police cars sped past his house as officers tried to reach the school quickly.

We can now bring you more photos from the scene showing the heavy police presence in the area surrounding the building where the attack happened.

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Guy Nelson, who lives about a block away from the school, says he saw dozens of police vehicles speeding towards the building where the attack took place.

"I saw about 20 cop cars going at a high rate of speed past my house and I knew something was up," he told CBS News, the BBC's US partner.

"I was kinda nervous and scared at the same time," he continued. "I couldn't imagine what was going on there. Probably some really bad stuff."

He said he saw about 70 to 80 police vehicles arrive.

Nelson also said he very worried for everyone involved, and that the seriousness of an attack like this is more apparent when it happens so close by.

"You always see it on TV that it happens somewhere else. You know you feel bad, but you don't realise the situation as when it's here."

Madison authorities have just finished the second police briefing of the day. Here's a quick summary of everything we know so far about this morning's shooting in Wisconsin:

• Three people have died at a school shooting in Madison, Wisconsin
• The death toll includes the suspected shooter, who police say was a teenage student attending Abundant Life Christian School
• The two other victims were a teacher and a teenage student
• Six others are injured and being treated at hospital - two of these victims are in a life-threatening condition, while the other four suffered non-life threatening injuries

• Officers arrived at the Abundant Life Christian School at 11:00 local time (17:00 GMT) along with 15 ambulances and local fire department staff
• Police Chief Shon Barnes says a handgun was recovered at the school and that the suspected shooter's family has been contacted and is "co-operating"
• Police do not yet know why the shooting took place, but say there is no ongoing threat to the community

In his remarks a bit earlier, Police Chief Shon Barnes noted that he began his own career in public service as a school teacher - something he reminded reporters about again while taking questions.

"I started my professional career in the world as a public school teacher back in 1997," he said, after providing an update on the investigation.

"I taught public school for four years. It was one of the greatest joys of my life before becoming a police officer."

"I can tell you what a special place our schools are," he continued.

"With that said, we owe it to our community to do everything possible to ensure that its not only a special place, but a safe place as well. And we're going to continue to do that."

With a final appeal to the community to support each other after the attack, Police Chief Shon Barnes and Madison Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway bring the briefing to a close.

Stick with us as we bring you a recap of the key new details we've just heard.