Updated August 27, 2025 at 9:51 AM MST

Two children were killed and 17 people were injured — 14 of them children — in a shooting Wednesday morning at a Minneapolis Catholic school.

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara said the shooting occurred just before 8:30 a.m. local time during a Mass in the first week of classes at Annunciation Catholic School, when a shooter standing outside fired through church windows at worshippers.

"This was a deliberate act of violence against innocent children and other people worshipping," O'Hara said. "The sheer cruelty and cowardice of firing into a church full of children is absolutely incomprehensible."

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The two children who died, aged 8 and 10, were killed as they sat in the pews. Several victims are in critical condition.

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