The shooting at a Catholic school in Minneapolis was the fourth deadly shooting in the city in just more than 24 hours. In total, the string of violence has left at least five people dead and 25 injured, according to police.
Police officials said the first shooting happened just before 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, when a man stepped out of a vehicle near the Cristo Rey Jesuit High School in the Phillips neighborhood and fired about 30 rounds from a high-velocity .223 rifle at a group of people on a sidewalk. One person was killed and six others were injured. Two people accused of “assisting” in the shooting have been arrested, but the gunman remains at large, Chief Brian O’Hara of the Minneapolis Police said.
Later on Tuesday, around 8 p.m., a man in his 20s was found shot in the city’s Whittier neighborhood and subsequently died in a hospital, police said. A second man in his 20s was brought to a different hospital with gunshot wounds roughly 20 minutes later; his injuries were believed to be related to the same shooting, police said.
Authorities said the third shooting took place around 2 a.m. Wednesday in downtown Minneapolis, when someone “opened fire at close range” at a group of people on a sidewalk, killing one person and injuring another.
Around 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, a gunman began firing through the windows at Annunciation Catholic Church during a Mass that was being celebrated midway through the first week of classes at the church’s school. Two children, ages 8 and 10, were killed and 17 other people, 14 of them children, were injured. The attacker then killed himself, police said.
In a statement after the three earlier shootings, O’Hara urged the public to come forward with information, saying that “the level of gun violence across the city within the last day is deeply unsettling.”
The latest outburst of violence comes after the Twin Cities area was rattled in June when a gunman assassinated a state lawmaker and her husband and left another lawmaker and his wife hospitalized with gunshot wounds, setting off a two-day search.
This article originally appeared in The New York Times.
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