Some children and teachers inside a Minneapolis church displayed remarkable courage under fire when an assailant began shooting at students attending a Catholic Mass, medical officials said today.

One pre-teen student at Annunciation Catholic Church during the deadly Wednesday morning attack took a shotgun blast to his back after putting his body in the line of fire trying to protect another child, county health officials said.

“There’s a lot of maybe unrecognized heroes in this event, along with the children that were protecting other children,” Martin Scheerer, a director at Hennepin Emergency Medical Services. “The teachers were getting shot at. They were protecting the kids.”

The shooter killed two children before fatally shooting herself, and 18 teachers and children were injured,

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