#children-victims

#children-victims

You can't go anywhere, you can't escape. I had to sit there and put up with it.

I've been thinking about their friends and their teachers, about all of the parents, about all the grandparents out there navigating the return to school. And all they should be hoping to do is have someone to sit with at lunch or someone to play with on the playground. They should be waiting to hear an update when they get home. And that is not what these parents at the school experience today.

At the time, students were attending mass to mark the beginning of a new school year. Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara later said in a press conference that the shooter a male in his early 20s fired a rifle, a shotgun, and a handgun outside the school's adjoining church. Following the shooting, he's believed to have died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

During the mass, a gunman approached on the outside, on the side of the building and began firing a rifle through the church windows, towards the children sitting in the pews at the mass. He struck children and worshippers that were inside the building. The shooter was armed with a rifle, a shotgun and a pistol. This was a deliberate act of violence against innocent children and other people worshipping.

Several framed photos on the yellow ground drown amid bouquets of wilting flowers under a wind-shaken strip of red tape. Above them are towering rectangles of damaged concrete remnants of a blast-gutted apartment building. list of 4 itemslist 1 of 4list 2 of 4list 3 of 4list 4 of 4end of list Sasha Paremsky, 11, stood in front of the scene, quietly describing a boy in one of the photos. The scariest thing is to see my friend's photo there. We'd just met to play football before this, he told Al Jazeera with a pause.

Officials have warned the death toll could rise, as several children remain in a critical condition.