Minneapolis Catholic School Shooting Leaves 3 Dead, 17 Injured
Tragic attack at Annunciation Catholic School claims lives of two children and the shooter during morning Mass.
Minneapolis, August 27 EST: Sirens cut through morning Mass at Annunciation Catholic School today. Two children are dead, more than a dozen others are hurt, and the shooter is gone a young man who turned the gun on himself in the parking lot after spraying bullets through the church windows.
It happened fast, just after 8:30. The school is on 54th and Harriet, a quiet block lined with maples and family homes. Parents usually walk their kids in, grab coffee a few streets over. This morning, they ran barefoot toward police tape, screaming names.
The Attack
Police say the gunman, early 20s, no record they can find, showed up with three weapons: a rifle, a shotgun, a pistol. He didn’t walk into the church he stood outside and opened fire through the stained glass. Between 50 and 100 rounds, according to investigators. Kids ducked under pews. Teachers covered them. Some tried to run for the side exits.
Minutes later it was over. The man shot himself before officers reached him.
Loss and Survival
Two students, just 8 and 10, were killed. Seventeen others injured fourteen of them kids. Seven children are critical. Three adults also wounded.
At Hennepin Healthcare, trauma bays filled fast. Nine kids, two adults. Four surgeries before noon. Over at Children’s Minnesota, doctors took in more. Hospitals called for blood, and by midafternoon neighbors were lining up to give it.
Shock in the Southwest
This isn’t North Minneapolis, where families have long lived with the sound of gunfire. This is the southwest side tidy lawns, Little League, church festivals. Violence this brutal feels out of place, which makes it hit harder.
Police Chief Brian O’Hara called it “cruel beyond explanation.” Mayor Jacob Frey called it “incomprehensible.” Governor Tim Walz promised resources. President Trump sent condolences. On the ground, none of it mattered much to parents waiting at the reunification site, where volunteers passed out water and tissues while people prayed their kid’s name would be called.
Investigation
The FBI and ATF are working with local police. No bombs, no traps, but they did find a smoke device. Motive still unknown.
A Changed Place
By evening, flowers and teddy bears covered the school sign. People stood staring at the broken glass in silence. “It’s supposed to be safe here,” said Mary Ellen O’Connor, whose nephew attends Annunciation. “You go to Mass, grab ice cream after. That’s life here. Now it’s shattered.”
The city has carried trauma before Floyd, protests, the rise in shootings. But two children gunned down in their church hits deeper, in a part of town that believed it was immune. Tonight, vigils. Tomorrow, counselors in classrooms. And at hospitals across Minneapolis, doctors still fighting for seven young lives.
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