‘It Was Really Scary’: 5th Grader Shares Heartbreaking Story of Church Attack

‘It Was Really Scary’: 5th Grader Shares Heartbreaking Story of Catholic Church Attack

Sean James Aug 27th, 2025, 4:15 pm

A fifth grade student shared chilling eyewitness testimony of the “really scary” moment a gunman opened fire inside a Catholic church in Minneapolis — an attack that sent one of his friends to the hospital and other students scrambling to a nearby gymnasium for safety — during a local television interview on Wednesday.

“It was like shots fired, and then he kind of like got under the pews, [and] he kind of shot through the stained glass windows,” Weston Halsne , a 10-year-old student at Annunciation Catholic Church, told WCCO, a local CBS affiliate. “It was really scary.”

CNN broadcast footage of the WCCO interview soon after it aired.

The boy continued: “We wa