And armed man opened fire this Wednesday morning in a iglesiawhich contains a elementary schoolin the American population of Minneapolis. Police exchanged shots until he retained.
Specifically, the school is that of the Annunciation, near Diamond Lake Road. Eighth grade students had just returned to the Catholic School of the Annunciation for a new school year last Monday.
The MN Crime news service reported at first that two people have died and a dozen more have been transferred to the hospital, but those details have not been confirmed by the police so far.
The governor Tim Walz He described the shooting of “Horrendo”. The Government of the MINNEAPOLIS City He said that the shooter had been “content” after a brief shooting at the Church’s school, without an “active threat” for residents.
Walz said on social networks that he had been informed about the shooting. “I am praying for our children and teachers whose first week of classes was tarnished by this horrible act of violence,” Walz wrote in X.
A person who answered the phone at the Annunciation school said the students were being evacuated. The Local and State Police, agents of the Federal Office of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and other authorities gathered before school.
The school, which covers from preschool to eighth grade, had a mass for the entire school scheduled for 8:15 am on Wednesday ,. Monday was the first day of class, and photos of that day on social networks show students with green uniforms greeting themselves in bicycle parking lots, smiling at the camera and sitting together.
The shooting was the last one of a series of mortal shootings in the city in less than 24 hours. One person died and another six were injured in a shooting that occurred on Tuesday afternoon in front of a high school in Minneapolis. Hours later, two people died in two other shootings in the city.
