RICHMOND, Va. (WWBT) - Governor Glenn Youngkin called for flags to be flown at half-staff in memory and respect of the victims of the Catholic school shooting in Minneapolis, Minnesota on Wednesday, August 27.

Meanwhile, the Catholic Diocese of Richmond released a statement sending condolences and prayers to those impacted.

“As a Church, we are all heartbroken over the tragic shooting this morning at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis that took the lives of precious children and injured more than a dozen others. I am filled with even more profound sadness to learn that the horrors of this violence took place during an all-school Mass.” - Bishop Barry Knestout.

Wednesday morning, a shooter opened fire through the windows of a Catholic school in Minneapolis and killed two childre

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