The morning of Aug. 27, a shooting at Annunciation Catholic School took the lives of two students, and left at least 21 injured. This includes 18 students and three senior citizens. No less than seven of the victims were in critical condition upon arrival at a nearby hospital. The shooter has been identified as Robin Westman, a former student at Annunciation Catholic School. Officials have said Westman was armed with a rifle, pistol, and shotgun, which allegedly fired over a hundred rounds through the church windows. Immediately after, Westman died of a self-inflicted gunshot in the church’s rear parking lot , marking this tragedy as a murder-suicide.
At a press conference just hours after the shooting occurred, Minneapolis Chief of Police Brian O’Hara recounted the shooter’s actions.
“During the Mass, a gunman approached on the outside, on the side of the building, and began firing a rifle through the church windows towards the children sitting in the pews at the Mass. Shooting through the windows, he struck children and worshipers that were inside the building. This was a deliberate act of violence against innocent children and other people worshiping,” O’Hara said…