After hearing shots fired on Wednesday, Aug. 27, Minneapolis resident Pat Scallen raced from his home to the nearby Annunciation Catholic School. He spotted an empty magazine from a firearm on the ground, then ran to the front of the church, where the victims and others were already staggering outside. Many of the children were terrified and in shock, and just wanted their parents.

Scallen comforted one little girl who had been wounded in the head. “Please,” she said, “just hold my hand.”

Two children, ages eight and 10, were murdered in this shooting. Eighteen others, three of them in their 80s and the rest between the ages of six and 15, were wounded.

The murderer, a 23-year-old man, who since age 17 had claimed to be a woman, killed himself at the scene. According to Fox News 9 ,

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