Networks focused almost entirely on the scene in Minneapolis on Wednesday to cover the latest mass shooting at a school, as a gunman fired on children as they celebrated Mass at Annunciation Catholic Church.
Two children were killed, and 14 children and two adults were injured in the shooting. A gunman approached the side of the building “and began firing a rifle through the church windows, towards the children sitting in the pews at the mass,” according to Minneapolis Chief Brian O’Hara. The shooter was armed with a rifle, a shotgun and a pistol, he said, in a “deliberate act of violence against innocent children and other people worshiping.” The gunman took his own life in the rear of the church, he said.
The Associated Press, citing a law enforcement official, identified the gunman as