By Jeremy Olson

Star Tribune

MINNEAPOLIS — EMS officials credited an initial, accurate estimate by Minneapolis police of about 20 gunshot victims at Annunciation Church for an emergency response that loaded all of the people needing hospital attention into ambulances in about 25 minutes.

The 17 hospitalized individuals are all expected to survive, officials said. Two children died at the church.

“You know, even with the bridge collapse, they said, ‘Send us everything you’ve got!’” said Tyler Lupkes, special operations battalion chief for Hennepin EMS. “But here we have firm numbers.”

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Police officers brought the injured out to the front of the church, where paramedics assessed them and loaded them some

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