At least five children were injured in a shooting at a Catholic school in Minneapolis on Wednesday.
Gov. Tim Walz (D) said the incident occurred at Annunciation Catholic School, a private K-8 school on the city’s southwest side. “I’m praying for our kids and teachers whose first week of school was marred by this horrific act of violence,” Walz wrote.
Five patients from the scene have been transferred to Children’s Minnesota in Minneapolis, the region’s primary pediatric trauma center.
The city of Minneapolis said there is “no active threat to the community,” adding that “the shooter is contained.”
School days, school days, dear old golden rule days…
In other news, there have been so many fake shooters elsewhere that the FBI has launched a probe. My apologies but the only source I can find right now is paywalled.
There was also a mass shooting here yesterday, wherein 6 people were wounded. It happened at 1:00 pm. Both of these shootings involved high-velocity weapons, which cause untold damage, unlike a lower velocity weapon like a 9mm.
I’m not sure if the shooter in this case did use a large caliber rifle. As a matter of fact this reminds me a lot of the I Don’t Like Mondays shooting which used a .22 rifle. Similar victims, similar shooter (in that they are probably an unconnected older person), 2 deaths but a lot of other injuries.
Then again there are also reports that the Minnesota shooter “shot through the windows” amongst other things, so that could also explain the thankfully-low deaths so far.
Chefguy mentioned high-velocity, not large caliber. In the USA it is very common to own rifles using the 5.56mm/.223cal round which are small caliber but have high muzzle velocities (e.g. AR15 type).
The shooter was identified as Robin Westman, formerly Robert. And it’s confirmed that she shot herself at the conclusion of her rampage, so indeed 3 dead.
There’s an as of yet unconfirmed manifesto (but it has her name and was posted long before that was public knowledge), and a video supposedly made by the shooter as she was preparing. If it’s authenticated, the guns she used had slogans like “Kill Donald Trump”, “For the Children” (?), and “Six Million Wasn’t Enough”.
After listening to the ramblings at the end of her manifesto video; holy shit, that is one sad, broken individual. And even worse that they decided to ruin so many other lives with them on their way out.
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@Aspenglow, my apology; a while after I posted it I started wondering if I had crossed that line. It was intended as a serious question, however, but that doesn’t excuse anything.