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Family members have identified the two Annunciation Catholic School students who were murdered on Wednesday by a gunman during an all-school mass at the Annunciation Catholic Church next door in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota.

The students, Fletcher Merkel, 8, and Harper Moyski, 10, were killed by a lone shooter police identified as 23-year-old "Robin" Westman, formerly known as Robert Westman before a legal name change in 2020. Police say Westman fired a barrage of bullets through the church's window before taking his own life .

"Yesterday, a coward decided to take our 8-year-old son, Fletcher, away from us," Merkel's father, Jesse Merkel, said during a press conference Thursday.

"Because of their actions, we will never be allowed to hold him, talk to him, play with

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