MINNEAPOLIS — Annunciation students returned to school Tuesday for the first time in three weeks, guided by colorful chalk art designed by neighbors.

Rachel Kvanbeck got to the Catholic school campus before sunrise. The artist used bright colors to create and write the school's motto: "A future filled with hope."

It would be one of the first things students saw when dropped off by their parents.

"[I] hope it brings some smiles today," Kvanbeck said.

She lives about a mile from the school and heard the sirens on the morning of August 27, when a shooting in the sanctuary took the lives of two Annunciation students and injured 21 others in the community.

"I can only imagine what they're coming back to, knowing what happened here, and seeing the things they saw that they should never ha

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