{"id":177524,"date":"2025-08-27T19:20:48","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T15:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=177524"},"modified":"2025-08-28T11:12:52","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T07:12:52","slug":"school-shooting-in-minneapolis-leaves-2-children-dead-and-17-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/177524\/","title":{"rendered":"School shooting in Minneapolis leaves 2 children dead and 17 injured"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Two children aged eight and 10 have been killed and 17 people injured when a gunman opened fire on schoolchildren attending Mass at a Catholic school in the United States, Al Jazeera<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n

As noted, all the children being treated are expected to survive their injuries.<\/p>\n

Local authorities have not yet discerned a motive for the attack and said the shooter – armed with a rifle, a shotgun and a pistol – took his own life and appears to have acted alone. The FBI said that it is probing the attack as a potential act of terrorism. Police said the assailant, identified as Robin Westman, was in his 20s and did not appear to have had an extensive criminal history.<\/p>\n

Kash Patel, the Trump-appointed director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), has said that the agency is probing the attack as a possible hate crime targeting Catholics.<\/p>\n

“This was a deliberate act of violence against innocent children and other people worshipping,” Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara said during a news conference. “The sheer cruelty and cowardice of firing into a church full of children is absolutely incomprehensible.”<\/p>\n

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, and U.S. President Donald Trump offered condolences to the families of the victims. Pope Leo XIV described the incident as a “terrible tragedy” and said he is praying for the victims.<\/p>\n

The attack is the 146th such attack of its type since January.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two children aged eight and 10 have been killed and 17 people injured when a gunman opened fire on schoolchildren attending Mass at a Catholic school in the United States, Al Jazeera writes. As noted, all the children being treated are expected to survive their injuries. Local authorities have not yet discerned a motive for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":177494,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,43,98,47,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-other-en","category-society","category-social"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177525,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177524\/revisions\/177525"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}