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.
So it’s going to be the one time the conservatives actually say something.
You litteraly did the meme
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.
And trans people can count on absolutely no help from democrats.
When will these shootings end? When will we finally say “enough is enough”?
Literally never. There was an interview after Sandy Hook that still rings true: a man was asked "how many kids have to die before we take action on general firearm ownership’ and his answer was “all of them,” as matter of fact as you like.
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.
When America gets an actual safety net.
People have been asking that question since Columbine.
Not any time soon is the answer.
The minimum first step is keeping NRA money out of legislator’s hands.
Depends on the action that your advocating for in order to stop it.
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.
I really don’t want Minneapolis to be the epicenter of another culture war. We still haven’t recovered from the last one.
God’s will, I guess
Man, I hope God has some really awesome plans for those kids parents. Otherwise he’s just some sort of asshole.
Thoughts and prayers
That’s a religious school, they have enough prayers.
Thots and beers.
‘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.
The survivors are all future religious zealots that will be despised by those currently celebrating their survival.
Thoughts and prayers!
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Wonder what they’ll think about the dead kids.
Nah who am I kidding. They don’t think.
Someone doesn’t know people who went to catholic school.
One of my wife’s friends (not mine, I don’t really like them, especially the wife because she’s the stereotype of a Catholic wife and mother like Jesus …to a ‘t’…and I get the impression that behind closed doors, the husband takes the Irish-Catholic Husband role very seriously) sends their kids to Catholic school.
Their oldest, though, is awesome. Wicked smart kid, awesome imagination. I think he may be a bit on the spectrum. The type of kid that, at a party, will have more fun talking to the parents than playing with the kids.
Anyway I feel bad for this kid because despite being super smart and having an awesome imagination, these great conversations get punctuated by Catholic fables and he treats that as equal fact.
I really want to be a part of this kids eventual atheist-awakening. It’s bound to happen, he’s far too logical and skeptical. But I really worry about how this kid will fare if it doesn’t, and what it will mean for his family ties when it does.
I went to Catholic school and recently saw like eight former classmates at a friend’s wedding. The bride is Catholic, but none of the rest of us are. I was an out atheist in school, but the rest of them were ostensibly religious then (~15 years ago). Half of us are now queer and fucking nobody supports jd Vance. Even the catholic one isn’t a religious fanatic. She keeps her faith mostly private and married a divorced father.
This kid will probably also become less religious over time (or suddenly). I think Catholicism is a little easier to break free from than Lutheranism or Episcopalianism, because of transubstantiation. Once he realizes that people expect him to literally think the host is Jesus’ actual, real, material flesh, it’s kind of hard to believe it.
I stopped believing in god at four years old because I realized everyone else in my Sunday school class believed the story about Jonah and the whale. Catholics often give the Old Testament a little wiggle room, but transubstantiation is absolutely core to Catholicism.
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