When gunfire shattered a routine Mass marking the first week of class at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis, middle school students were among those who acted heroically, according to an emergency official, a principal and a parent whose children attend the school.

As a lone shooter carried out a mass shooting that killed two children and injured 15 other children and three adults, children were protecting other children.

“We had one kid that covered up another kid and took a shotgun blast to his back,” Marty Scheerer, chief of Hennepin Emergency Medical Services, said on Thursday.

How an 8-year-old witness describes the Minneapolis Catholic school shooting

A day after a fatal shooting at a Minneapolis church killed two young students and injured 18 other people, people are

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