City police chief Brian O’Hara confirmed the attacker sprayed bullets through the windows of the Annunciation Church as dozens of young students attended a Mass marking their first week back at school.
The FBI is investigating the shooting as an act of domestic terrorism and a hate crime targeting Catholics, according to Director Kash Patel.
O’Hara stated “Two young children, ages eight and 10, were killed where they sat in the pews.”
The shooter fired a rifle, shotgun, and pistol before dying by suicide in the parking lot.
One 10-year-old said he had survived the shooting thanks to a friend who covered him with his body.
“My friend Victor saved me though, because he laid on top of me, but he got hit.”
The mass shooting is the latest in a long line of deadly school attacks in the US, where attempts to restrict easy access to firearms face political deadlock.
Westman, 23, legally changed name in 2020 and identified as female, court papers show.
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey warned against using the attack to lash out at transgender people, and addressed the issue of gun ownership in the US.
“We’ve got more guns in this country than we have people... we can’t just say that this shouldn’t happen again and then allow it to happen again and again.”
One attendee, Louise Fowler, told the newspaper she knew the suspect’s mother when she worked at the church.
Videos posted online by the shooter showed a multi-page manifesto, and names and drawings of firearms.
“We don’t have a motive at this time,” O’Hara said.
Pope Leo XIV said he was “profoundly saddened” by the tragedy.
Former president Barack Obama called it “yet another act of unspeakable, unnecessary violence.”
This year, there have been at least 287 mass shootings across the country, according to the Gun Violence Archive. – AFP
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