2 children dead, 17 people injured in Minneapolis shooting : NPR
Law application agents meet outside the Church Annunciation and the Catholic School Annunciation in Minneapolis in response to a mass shooting on Wednesday.
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Two children were killed and 17 people were injured – including 14 children – during a shooting Wednesday morning in a Catholic school in Minneapolis.
Minneapolis police chief Brian O’Hara said the shooting took place just before 8:30 am local time during a mass to mark the first week of lessons at the Catholic School Annunciation. The attack occurred at the Annunciation Church, next to the school, when a standing shooter pulled through the windows of the church of the faithful.
“It was an act of deliberate violence against innocent children and other people adored,” said O’Hara. “Cruelty and cowardice to shoot in a church full of children are absolutely incomprehensible.”
The two deceased children, aged 8 and 10, were killed when they were sitting in the benches. Several victims are in critical condition.
According to O’Hara, the shooter was at the beginning of the twenty and was armed with a rifle, a hunting rifle and a pistol – which he all pulled during the attack, believed the authorities.
The shooter was found dead from what the investigators think they are a self-inflicted ball injury, said O’Hara.
“The children died. There are families who have a deceased child,” said Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey. “You cannot put into words the gravity, tragedy or absolute pain of this situation.”
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz said in an article on X that he “prayed for our children and teachers whose first school week had been tainted by this horrible act of violence”.
President Trump declared in an article on his social media site Truth Social that he had been fully informed of the shooting and that the FBI was on the scene.
“The White House will continue to monitor this terrible situation. Please join me to pray for everyone involved!” He said.
Dr. Thomas Wyatt, president of Emergency Medicine at Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis, told journalists that the level I trauma center treated 11 patients, including nine. Seven are in critical condition.
The Minnesota children’s hospital told NPR that it had admitted six children for care after the shooting.
“Our teams are trained to respond in times of crisis and are fully ready to take care of affected children,” the hospital said in a statement. “We will not share more details to respect the privacy of our patients and families.”
The Minneapolis police department said in a post on Facebook on Wednesday that the shooter was “content” and that there was “no active threat to the community at the moment”.
It is a story in development.
