Two children tragically killed when a gunman opened fire into a Minneapolis church where their school was attending Mass have been identified as their families shared messages remembering the young lives taken too soon.

According to his family, 8-year-old Fletcher Merkel was killed in the mass shooting at Annunciation Church that also left a 10-year-old girl dead and more than a dozen others wounded.

"Yesterday, a coward decided to take our 8-year-old son, Fletcher, away from us," his father, Jesse Merkel, said during a press conference Thursday. "Because of their actions, we will never be allowed to hold him, talk to him, play with him and watch him grow into the wonderful young man he was on the path to becoming."

In addition to Fletcher, family identified Harper Moyski as one of th

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