Gunfire erupted Wednesday morning at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis during the first week of classes. The Minneapolis city government said the shooter had been contained and there was no longer an active threat to residents. Authorities, including police, FBI and other federal agents, converged on the school while ambulances and Hennepin Healthcare responded and began caring for patients. Students were evacuated from the pre-kindergarten through eighth grade school, which had scheduled an all-school Mass. Governor Tim Walz said he had been briefed and expressed prayers for students and teachers; reported injury numbers remained unknown.
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. Walz said on social media that he had been briefed on the shooting. "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.
As police, FBI and other federal agents and ambulances converged on the school, a person answering the phone there said students were being evacuated. A spokesperson for Hennepin Healthcare, which has Minnesota's largest emergency department, said in a text message that it was actively dealing with an emergency and provided no additional details. A social media post from the company said it was caring for patients from the shooting.
Dating to 1923, the pre-kindergarten through eighth grade school had an all-school Mass scheduled at 8:15 a.m. Wednesday morning, according to its website. Monday was the first day of school, and social media photos from that day show students in green uniforms greeting each other at bicycle racks, smiling for the camera and sitting together.
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