Minneapolis School Shooting Video Shows Children Fleeing Church

The Minnesota Catholic faculty capturing that left 2 youngsters useless and 17 folks injured brought about widespread panic … and now there’s new video capturing college students in a mad rush for the exits.

CNN launched the wild footage Thursday, which reveals dozens of children stampeding out of Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis the day earlier than. Older college students are seen hurrying youthful ones by means of a set of doorways, youngsters cowering behind pews, and others merely weeping.

Adults appear to be urging scared youngsters to run to them in an effort to escape the home of worship … and, as you possibly can see, CNN’s blurred a bit within the background. Unclear what precisely they lined up right here.

As … a shooter — believed to be 23-year-old Robin Westman — arrived exterior the church round 8:30 AM native time Wednesday and commenced firing by means of the glass home windows — with a rifle, a shotgun and a pistol, police say — into the gang of youngsters and different attendees. Westman died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound on the scene.

CNN stories Westman visited the college a number of weeks earlier than the capturing befell … and likewise stories Westman graduated from the grade faculty in 2017. It seems Westman reportedly left behind a manifesto … through which Westman seems to have expressed an obsession with Adam Lanza — the Sandy Hook faculty shooter.

The dispatch audio from the incident particulars some ugly accidents brought about in the course of the capturing … together with at the least one gunshot wound to the pinnacle.