A 23-year-old man who killed two young school students and wounded more than a dozen after opening fire on youngsters sitting in a Catholic church in the US city of Minneapolis was “filled with hatred” and “obsessed” with killing children, authorities said.

Minneapolis police chief Brian O’Hara said on Thursday that the suspect had fired 116 bullets through stained-glass windows while the children celebrated Mass on Wednesday during the first week of classes at the Annunciation Catholic School.

“It is very clear that this shooter had the intention to terrorise those innocent children,” O’Hara said.

The police chief also requested that the news media stop reporting the shooter’s name because the purpose of this “heinous attack” was to gain “notoriety”. The assailant took their own life i

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