(28 Aug 2025)
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Minneapolis – 28 August 2025
1. Man placing flowers at a memorial set up outside Annunciation Catholic Church
2. Kid embracing an adult after placing a flower at the memorial
3. Close of a teddy bear and flowers placed at memorial
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Ellie Valdes, resident:
"Um, our son goes to preschool here. He thankfully stays home on Wednesdays. But, um, as soon as we heard the news, immediately tore us to pieces. And it felt as if he was here, his teachers, his classmates, our community is here. And, um, we spent the day reading the news all day yesterday figuring out what’s happening, processing and just to come here physically and be in the presence of this community and see what happened and feel and just be here physically is a really important thing for us to process what’s happening. And it’s hard to know what to do but any little thing is helping us get through it."
5. Various of people gathered at memorial
6. Wide of Ellie Valdes, her partner and their kids placing flowers at memorial
7. Close of Ellie Valdes and her partner carrying their kids, walking away after placing flowers at memorial
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Kurt Curtin, resident:
"I couldn’t not stop and pay my gratitude and thanks to the, to the people who had to come and respond. And then for all the families just prayers out to them that need to be able to handle this horrific incident."
7. Various of Kurt Curtin writing a message in a cross set up at memorial
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Kurt Curtin, resident:
"I can’t imagine sending them (his kids) to school and not having to be able to pick them up, so, yeah… My hearts are with these families right now. Sad, so sad."
10. Woman placing flowers at memorial
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Erica Calle Dominguez, resident:
"For me to hear that it’s happening right here in the city where I grew up in is really heartbreaking. And I’m gonna become a teacher too. I have like 2 or 3 more years to go before I do become a teacher, and It’s really sad to hear that this is going on right now. And I hope that when I become a teacher that these kind of things aren’t going on anymore, they’re not as like common."
12. Wide of Annunciation Catholic Church sign on the side of the Church and religious statue
13. Wooden planks placed on windows on the side of the Church
14. Wide of Church door, wooden plank placed on the left side
15. Wide of Annunciation Catholic Church
STORYLINE:
People visited a memorial of flowers and crosses that was set up Thursday outside Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis, where a shooter fired through the windows the day before, killing two children and wounding 17 people.
Ellie Valdes’ son attends preschool at Annunciation Catholic School, but was not in attendance on Wednesday when the shooting happened. Valdes said it was important for her and her family to visit the memorial Thursday.
"Just to come here physically and be in the presence of this community and see what happened and feel and just be here physically is a really important thing for us to process what’s happening," Valdes said.
Kurt Curtin of Shoreview, Minneapolis, father of four, previously worked as a teacher at another school and often passed by Annunciation. He visited the memorial Thursday and wrote a message on a cross.
"I couldn’t not stop and pay my gratitude and thanks to the, to the people who had to come and respond. And then for all the families just prayers out to them that need to be able to handle this horrific incident," Curtin said.
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