Shooter fired 116 rounds from a rifle into a Minneapolis church, police chief says

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The shooter who killed two Catholic school students and wounded more than a dozen children 116 fired rifle rounds into the Minneapolis church, the city’s police chief said Thursday.

Authorities have been poring over videos, writings and the movements of the shooter but remained uncertain what motivated 23-year-old Robin Westman to open fire through stained-glass windows as children celebrated Mass on the first week of classes at the Annunciation Catholic School.

THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows below.

The shooter who killed two Catholic school students and wounded more than a dozen children sitting in the pews of a Minneapolis church once attended the same school and had been a member of the church, the city’s police chief said.

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