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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The bad news began in the early days of summer and has never seemed to end in this corner of the Upper Midwest. There was the deadly attack on state politicians in the Minneapolis suburbs. The gunfire that erupted during a gathering at a popular city picnic spot, leaving one person dead and five injured. On Tuesday …

Good morning. You’re reading the Up First newsletter. Subscribe here to get it delivered to your inbox, and listen to the Up First podcast for all the news you need to start your day. Today’s top stories The names of the two children who were shot and killed on Wednesday at Annunciation Church and School in Minneapolis have been released. Harper Lillian Moyski, 10, …

More than seven years before Robin Westman opened fire on a Catholic school as Mass was underway, killing two children and injuring 17 more worshippers, police were called to a townhouse in the Twin Cities suburb where she lived with her mother. The heavily redacted police report NBC News obtained from the police department in Eagan, Minnesota, is dated Jan. …

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The shooter who killed two Catholic school students and wounded more than a dozen youngsters sitting in the pews of a Minneapolis church once attended the same school and was “obsessed” with the idea of killing children, authorities said Thursday. The shooter, identified as 23-year-old Robin Westman, fired 116 rifle casings through stained-glass windows while the children …

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — In the vaulted church of a Catholic school in Minneapolis, the pews were packed with teachers, parents and schoolchildren listening to a psalm on the third day of the new school year. “For you darkness itself is not dark, and night shines as the day,” a church member read to some 200 students Wednesday morning as sun …

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 …

Authorities are working to learn the motive of the shooter who fired into a Minneapolis Catholic school’s church during Mass, killing two children and injuring 17 worshippers. Officials identified the shooter as Robin Westman, 23, and said Westman was found dead in the parking lot from what they believe was a self-inflicted gunshot. Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara said authorities …

A police officer carries flowers outside the Annunciation Church’s school after the shooting on Wednesday in Minneapolis. Abbie Parr/AP hide caption toggle caption Abbie Parr/AP A shooter opened fire on a Minneapolis church filled with children and other worshippers during a Mass to mark the first week of school, killing two children and wounding 17 more people, authorities said. The …

Today’s live updates have ended. Read what you missed below and find more coverage at apnews.com. A shooter opened fire Wednesday morning during Mass at a Minneapolis Catholic school, killing two children and injuring 17 other people before dying by suicide, officials said. Police said 14 of the injured were children, with their ages ranging from 6 to 15, and …

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 …