Twenty-year-old California man detained in connection with Wisconsin school shooting

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A 20-year-old man in Carlsbad, California, has been accused of being in connection with the school shooting at Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wisconsin.

FBI agents served Alexander Paffendorf after discovering he was in contact with 15-year-old Natalie “Samantha” Rupnow, the shooter, and coordinating an attack at a local government building. 

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