Three dead and 17 injured in shooting at school in Minneapolis

""I'm praying for our kids and teachers whose first week of school was marred by this horrific act of violence," Walz wrote on X."

""I was shocked. I said, 'There's no way that could be gunfire,'" he said. "There was so much of it. It was sporadic.""

""It breaks my heart, makes me sick to my stomach, knowing that there are people I know who are either injured or maybe even killed," Alexandra Bienemann said. "It doesn't make me feel safe at all in this community that I have been in for so long.""

"The Minneapolis city government said the shooter had been 'contained' after the gunfire at Annunciation Catholic School and there was no longer any 'active threat' to residents."

A shooter armed with a rifle, shotgun and pistol approached the side of a church and fired through windows toward children sitting in pews during Mass at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis. The suspect, described as being in his early 20s with no extensive known criminal history, was found dead and authorities declared there was no active threat. Five children were admitted to Children's Minnesota and other patients were treated at Hennepin Healthcare. Neighbors reported hearing dozens of shots over several minutes. The school was evacuated and families were directed to a reunification zone; community members expressed shock and fear.

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