Updated August 27, 2025 at 10:23 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 to mark the first week of classes at Annunciation Catholic School. The attack happened at the Annunciation Church next to the school, when a shooter standing outside fired through the 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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