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An 8-year-old victim of Wednesday's mass shooting in Minneapolis has been identified as Fletcher Merkel, according to his father Jesse Merkel, per CNN

“Yesterday, a coward decided to take our eight-year-old son Fletcher away from us,” Jesse Merkel said in a statement

The Aug. 27 shooting unfolded during a school Mass at Annunciation Catholic Church; two children were killed and 18 other people were wounded

An 8-year-old killed in Wednesday’s attack on Catholic school students at Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis has been identified by family as Fletcher Merkel.

“Yesterday, a coward decided to take our eight-year-old son Fletcher away from us,” the boy's father, Jesse Merkel said in a statement, per CNN . “We will never be allowed to hold him, talk to him, play

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