A 10-year-old student says his friend shielded him from bullets inside a Minneapolis church when a shooter opened fire at Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis on Wednesday.

Police confirmed two casualties: an eight-year-old and a 10-year-old child. Both were killed by the gunman, who opened fire through the church windows and struck the victims sitting in the pews.

Fifth-grade student Weston Halsne said he was “two seats away from the stained glass windows” when the shooting began.

“It was like, shots fired, and then we kind of got under pews. They shot through the stained glass windows, I think, and it was really scary,” Halsne told CBS affiliate WCCO .

Halsne said he felt what he believed to be gunpowder on his neck.

“My friend Victor, like, saved me, though. Because he l

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