A shooter opened fire Wednesday morning during Mass at a Minneapolis Catholic school, killing two children and injuring 17 other people before dying by suicide, officials said.
Police said 14 of the injured were children, with their ages ranging from 6 to 15, and they are all expected to survive. The three adults who were injured are parishioners in their 80s, officials said.
The shooting happened at Annunciation Catholic School, just days after the first day of school on Monday.
“It’s my strongest desire that no state, no community, no school ever experiences a day like this,” Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said.
The White House said in a social media post that Trump ordered flags at half-staff for all government buildings until sunset on Sunday “as a mark of respect for the victims of the senseless acts of violence.”
**The location**: Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara said the shooter — armed with a rifle, shotgun and pistol — approached the side of the church and shot through the windows toward the children sitting in the pews during Mass.
The shooter: O’Hara identified the shooter as 23-year-old Robin Westman, adding that Westman had no prior criminal history and is believed to have acted alone, law enforcement reported. O’Hara said authorities are going through online videos attributed to Westman, posted around the time of the shooting. The content has now been taken down.
The school: Founded in 1923, Annunciation Catholic School had 391 students enrolled for the 2023-24 school year, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. The school goes from pre-K to eighth grade.
The shooter was trans. Heads up to the trans homies to be cautious and vigilant in the coming days, as right-wing media will almost certainly lean into to this and it could cause backlash against the trans community.
And trans people can count on absolutely no help from democrats.
They already are. You’ve already got genocide-cheerleading streamer Asmongold trying to suggest that their trans identity is the reason for the shooting, adding “Hating Jews doesn’t make you a neo-Nazi”.
This cunt was a literal Nazi, and Asmongold’s main issue is that they’re trans. Asmongold doesn’t want trans people in his Nazi club.
I really don’t want Minneapolis to be the epicenter of another culture war. We still haven’t recovered from the last one.
When will these shootings end? When will we finally say “enough is enough”?
When America gets an actual safety net.
People have been asking that question since Columbine.
Not any time soon is the answer.
Things might change when the Billionaire’s kids start dying, MAYBE. But doubt anything changes in the next 3 years.
When and if that happens, the billionaire’s kids will all just be home schooled by private tutors and protected by constant armed surveillance. The poors will, as always, be left to their own devices.
The minimum first step is keeping NRA money out of legislator’s hands.
Shit changed after the North Hollywood Shootout. The people in power need to feel that fear before anything will change.
For sure. Helped start the crazy militarization of US police. Now it seems ever cop car has an AR in it and departments spend a shitload of money on crazy military shit.
You can thank the North Hollywood bank robbers for that. They had 100% illegal modified weapons that no ban would’ve stopped (converted machineguns are already illegal) and LAPD famously “had to commandeer” additional firepower from area firearms retailers in that incident. So after that, pretty much every police cruiser was equipped with patrol carbine, shotgun, or both.
Depends on the action that your advocating for in order to stop it.
The fediverse unfortunately endorsed a few of them. So it is subconsciously more “enabled” than we would like when someone is to ask this.
Man, I hope God has some really awesome plans for those kids parents. Otherwise he’s just some sort of asshole.
God’s will, I guess
‘Murica #1, in shooting kids
Don’t worry we’re working on becoming #1 for bad education and #1 for lack of civil rights.
We’ll get there, don’t you worry.
Thoughts and prayers
That’s a religious school, they have enough prayers.
Thots and beers.
You can never have too many prayers.
One is too many and 1000 is not enough.
Pray into one hand and shit into the other. Let’s see which fills faster.
Well shit.
The survivors are all future religious zealots that will be despised by those currently celebrating their survival.
Thoughts and prayers!
Someone doesn’t know people who went to catholic school.
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Wonder what they’ll think about the dead kids.
Nah who am I kidding. They don’t think.
