First responders block off the crime scene following a mass shooting at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis Aug. 27, 2025. (OSV News/Reuters/Tim Evans)
Two children, ages 8 and 10, were gunned down as they prayed during the opening Mass at a Catholic school Aug. 27, 2025, in Minneapolis, killed by an assailant who sprayed bullets through church windows.
Shooting at the opening Mass for Annunciation Catholic School in south Minneapolis, also wounds 17. The assailant died by suicide behind the church, police said.
