A shooting at a small Christian school in Madison, Wisconsin, on Monday, left a teenage student and a teacher dead and several others injured, casting the small religious community into mourning just days before the school was going to close for Christmas.

The shooter who opened fire at a private Christian school in Wisconsin was a 17-year-old female student, a law enforcement official said.

Officials in Madison, Wisconsin, said a 15-year-old female student killed a student and a teacher before taking her own life. Six others were injured.