MINNEAPOLIS — Two children died and 17 people were injured after a mass shooting Wednesday at Annunciation Church and Catholic School in Minneapolis.

The shooter opened fire through the church windows while students and worshipers were seated in pews for Mass during the first week back at school.

Sadly, what happened in Minneapolis is not an aberration: In the wake of the Annunciation School tragedy, The Violence Prevention Project Research Center at Hamline University shared statistics on mass shootings at schools and houses-of-worship from 2000 through 2025. Researchers focused on 125 shootings across the nation with more than 2 fatalities or more than 3 casualties. Here are the patterns they found:

Three school shootings have occurred in Minnesota since 2000. Hamline researchers

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