Two young children were killed and 17 others were injured in a shooting during a Catholic Mass packed with young students in south Minneapolis Wednesday morning. The gunman is also dead.

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara said the shooting triggered a massive law enforcement response to Annunciation Catholic Church at West 54th Street between Harriet and Garfield avenues around 8:30 a.m. The church is attached to a school building.

The gunman approached from the outside of the building and fired a rifle through the church windows towards children and worshippers, O'Hara said.

An 8-year-old and a 10-year-old were killed while they sat in the pews. Of the 17 others injured, 14 are children. Two of them are in critical condition.

The gunman was in his 20s, O'Hara said, and has no exten

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