MINNEAPOLIS — FBI Director Kash Patel said the department is investigating Wednesday's mass shooting at a south Minneapolis church as an act of domestic terrorism and a hate crime against Catholics.

Minneapolis Police say two children were killed and 17 other people, including 14 kids, were injured after a shooter opened fire during a worship service at Annunciation Catholic Church on West 54th Street, at around 8:30 a.m. The two children killed were ages 8 and 10.

The FBI defines domestic terrorism as acts intended to:

Intimidate or coerce a civilian population;

Influence the policy of government by intimidation or coercion; or

Affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination or kidnapping.

A hate crime, as defined by the FBI, is a "criminal offense agains

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