The United States is once again shocked by yet another shooting. This time, the scene was Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis, a school that serves children from preschool to middle school. The toll is grave: two children, aged eight and ten, died, while 14 others, along with three adults, were injured.
The shooter, whose identity has not been released, committed suicide. The gunman, who arrived in a car he left in the parking lot of the Catholic school, was carrying three weapons—a rifle and two pistols—and began shooting through the windows of the church located within the complex , hitting children attending Mass.
The one that students and teachers follow every morning before the start of lessons.
The killer, a 20-year-old dressed in black, struck children in the neck and back, shocked witnesses reported. Two of them died while they were sitting at their desks. Fourteen others were injured, and at least seven are in serious condition. They range in age from 6 to 14. Three adults were also shot and were hospitalized. The killer committed suicide after the massacre. Nothing is known about him yet; he may have been a former student or school employee.
At least two of the church's doors had been barricaded from the outside using 2-by-4-inch wooden planks, local police chief Brian O'Hara told reporters. It's likely the killer had blocked them.
Donald Trump called Minnesota Governor and former opponent Tim Walz. "A tragic shooting, we pray for those involved," the American president said. "I pray for our children and teachers, whose first week of school has been ruined by this horrific act of violence," the Democrat wrote on X.
“Words cannot express the gravity, the tragedy, or the sheer pain of this moment,” Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said at a press conference, visibly shaken by yet another act of violence in the city where, just hours earlier, a shooting had injured seven people.
(Unioneonline)