{"id":96894,"date":"2025-08-27T18:14:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T18:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/96894\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T18:14:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T18:14:08","slug":"live-updates-two-children-and-suspect-killed-in-shooting-during-minneapolis-catholic-school-mass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/96894\/","title":{"rendered":"Live updates: Two children and suspect killed in shooting during Minneapolis Catholic school Mass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Catholic school shooting kills two children, aged 8 and 10 &#8211; what we know so farpublished at 17:47 British Summer Time<\/p>\n<p>17:47 BST<\/p>\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A police vehicle leaves a security perimeter\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/ace\/standard\/640\/cpsprodpb\/vivo\/live\/images\/2025\/8\/27\/66771689-7cb7-4e03-bcaf-33d00c364638.jpg.webp\"  width=\"1000\" height=\"562\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Reuters<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Here&#8217;s a recap of what we\u2019ve learnt from updates given by the Minneapolis mayor, police and the hospital, about what police chief Brian O&#8217;Hara described as a &#8220;deliberate act of violence against children and worshippers&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The victims<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Two young children, aged eight and 10, were killed in the shooting. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Seventeen others were injured, with 14 of them being children. A doctor said seven children are in critical condition &#8211; earlier, police said two.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The gunman<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Police said the attacker died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Authorities believe he was in his early 20s, did not have an extensive criminal history, and acted alone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He was believed to have used three weapons &#8211; a rifle, a shotgun and a pistol. A smoke bomb was also found in what police believe is his car.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Police are still searching for a motive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The shooting<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Police said the suspected gunman approached from outside the church and fired dozens of rounds through the windows, hitting children who were inside praying during a first week of school mass.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"An adult and child comfort each other as the leave the school as police respond to a shooting at the Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/ace\/standard\/640\/cpsprodpb\/vivo\/live\/images\/2025\/8\/27\/12d804ce-983e-43cc-987d-5c92217ca42c.jpg.webp\"  width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, EPA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Catholic school shooting kills two children, aged 8 and 10 &#8211; what we know so farpublished at 17:47&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96895,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-96894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}