Two children, ages 8 and 10, were killed and 17 others, including 14 children, were wounded when a gunman opened fire through church windows during Mass at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis. Police said the shooter was in his early 20s and armed with a rifle, a shotgun and a pistol, and investigators believe he fired from all three weapons. The suspect died at the scene from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, and authorities are probing a possible motive. The incident adds to a decade-long pattern of school shootings and prompts expert guidance urging proactive, age-appropriate conversations with children.
Another school shooting has unfolded, this time in Minnesota, as a new school year gets underway in many towns and cities across the United States. Two children -- an 8-year-old and a 10-year-old -- were killed and 17 others, including 14 children, were hurt when a gunman opened fire through the windows of a church during a Mass service at the Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis on Wednesday morning, according to Minneapolis Police.
The Annunciation Catholic School mass shooting is the latest in an ever-growing list of school shootings that have taken place in the past decade, since the Dec. 14, 2012, shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut that claimed the lives of 20 students and six educators. With each school shooting, the number of people affected by school shootings grows, as do the conversations parents and caregivers must have with kids about the reality of gun violence in the U.S.
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