People gather at a vigil at Lynnhurst Park Wednesday after a shooting at the Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis. AP

MINNEAPOLIS — In the vaulted church of a Catholic school in Minneapolis , the pews were packed with teachers, parents and schoolchildren listening to a psalm on the third day of the new school year.

“For you darkness itself is not dark, and night shines as the day,” a church member read to some 200 students Wednesday morning as sun streamed through stained glass windows.

Just before the congregants were to proclaim “Alleluia,” bullets blasted through the windows .

“Down! Everybody down!” someone shouted as children ducked for cover behind wooden pews from a barrage of gunfire. One student threw himself on top of a friend and was shot in the back. A youth min

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