Carla Maldonado broke down in tears and her voice quivered Monday as she recalled the day last month that she and her husband heard gunshots.

They’d taken their two children to Annunciation Catholic Church and School earlier that morning, just a couple of blocks from their south Minneapolis home. When it dawned on them that bullets could be flying at their children, the couple ran to find them.

“My mind was flooded with images of my children shot and lying dead in their own pool of blood. I experienced a level of fear and horror I never knew existed,” Maldonado said.

Maldonado recounted the horror of that day before a Senate working group on gun violence prevention. She and several other family members of children who survived the shooting implored state lawmakers to pass legislation th

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