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An attacker armed with three guns opened fire through stained-glass windows into a Catholic church during a school Mass on Wednesday, August 27, killing two children and injuring 17 others.

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00:00An attacker armed with three guns opened fire through stained glass windows into a Catholic church during a school mass on Wednesday, August 27, killing two children and injuring 17 others, officials said.
00:13Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara says the shooting ended when the suspect, 23-year-old Robin Westman, died by suicide at the back of the church.
00:21Authorities have not yet given a motive for the attack.
00:24The two victims, aged 8 and 10, were killed where they sat as gunfire shattered the calm of the morning mass, turning it into chaos.
00:32The attack happened at the start of an all-school mass held annually on the first Wednesday of the academic year at Annunciation Catholic School.
00:39In addition to the two children who were killed, 17 others were shot, 14 of them students between the ages of 6 and 18, and three adult parishioners.

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