For the 15 young students still recovering from the mass shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis, there’s a long road to healing ahead. This is especially true for 10-year-old Weston Halsne, a student who shared his story with WCCO’s Caroline Cummings and news stations across the country just hours after the attack that killed 8-year-old Fletcher Merkel and 10-year-old …
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Annunciation Church holds first Mass since deadly shooting The Annunciation Catholic Church held its first Mass since a deadly shooting on Wednesday took the lives of two children and injured at least 17 others. The two children who died in the shooting were identified as 8-year-old Fletcher Merkel and 10-year-old Harper Moyski. RELATED: Families identify 2 children killed in Annunciation …
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The Minnesota Star Tribune reviewed court and police documents, hundreds of pages of Westman’s writings and reached out to more than 50 former neighbors, classmates, coworkers and family members in an effort to understand her murderous intent. The evidence suggests someone struggling to find her place in the world. Her home life became less stable after her parents divorced when …
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Facebook Tweet Email Link Minneapolis — On late-August mornings in the Windom neighborhood, the soundscape is usually familiar and comforting. Cicadas buzz, sparrows dart between yards, neighbors trade easy greetings across tidy sidewalks and the Annunciation Catholic Church’s bells peal across southwest Minneapolis, calling parishioners to Mass as they have for more than a century. For generations, the church and …
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Annunciation students, June Holin, 9, 4th grade, left, and her sister Olive Holin, 6, first grade, write messages on crosses for their schoolmates in front of Annunciation Church as many continue to show up and show their respects for the victims of the mass shooting, in Minneapolis, MN on Friday, Aug. 29, 2025. They were there with their mother Beth …
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MINNEAPOLIS — While a motive in the Annunciation Catholic School mass shooting remains under investigation, police said they’ve confirmed that Robin Westman, the 23-year-old suspect, had attended the school, and Westman’s mother previously worked in the parish. Police determined that Westman “harbored a whole lot of hate towards a wide variety of people and groups of people,” and also “had …
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Annunciation School shooter talked of depression and left behind a list of grievances kare11.com Minneapolis shooting live updates: 8-year-old Fletcher Merkel identified as one of 2 children killed at Catholic school, as families begin to speak out yahoo.com They were praying when they were struck by gunfire. These are the victims of the Minneapolis church shooting CNN What we know about Minnesota school …
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Minneapolis mourns kids killed at Annunciation Catholic School as officials seek motive MPR News Minneapolis shooting live updates: 2 children killed, 17 injured at Catholic school; FBI investigating attack as hate crime yahoo.com Girl shot in head at Minneapolis school asked bystander, ‘Please just hold my hand’ ABC News Robin Westman posted a manifesto on YouTube prior to Annunciation Church shooting 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS …
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All 14 students who were injured during Wedesday’s barrage of gunfire inside the Minneapolis church are expected to survive, authorities said. “I believe all of them have their parents with them now. And they are all expected to survive all of the remaining victims are expected to survive,” Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara told reporters. Police said 14 children, ages …
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CBS News Live CBS News Minnesota Live Law enforcement in south Minneapolis are responding to an active shooter situation at Annunciation Catholic School Wednesday morning. A large number of first responders are at the scene on 54rd Avenue between Harriet and Garfield avenues. Annunciation Catholic School is attached to a church. According to a school schedule, there was an all-school …
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