(28 Aug 2025)
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Minneapolis — 28 August 2025
1. SOUNDBITE (English) Brian O’Hara, Minneapolis Police Chief:
"At this time, we have identified a total of 20 victims that had injuries resulting from gunfire, including the 8- and 10-year-old who were killed yesterday. Fifteen of the injured are children between the ages of 6 and 15. Three of those injured are adults in their 80s. Those who remain hospitalized need all of our support. As we continue to pray for a speedy recovery for all of our victims. During the processing of the scene at Annunciation Church yesterday, three shotgun shells were recovered along with approximately 116 rifle rounds. One live round was recovered from a handgun that appears to have malfunctioned as the shooter attempted to use it and became stuck in the chamber."
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2. SOUNDBITE (English) Joe Thompson, Acting U.S. Attorney, District of Minnesota:
"Our investigation is two-fold. First, we are seeking to confirm what we believe to be true, which is that the shooter acted alone and that no one else was involved, that the threat died with the shooter yesterday. We believe that to be true, but we’ll leave no stone unturned to ensure the safety of our community. Second, we are investigating the motive, why and how this happened. The shooter left behind hundreds of pages of writings, writings that describe the shooter’s plan, writings that described the shooter’s mental state, and more than anything, writings that describes the shooter’s hate. Pure indiscriminate hate. The shooter expressed hate towards almost every group imaginable."
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3. SOUNDBITE (English) Joe Thompson, Acting U.S. Attorney for Minnesota
"There appears to be only one group that the shooter didn’t hate. One group of people that the shooter admired. The group were the school shooters and the mass murderers that are notorious in this country. The shooter idolized some of the most notorious school shooters and mass murderers in our countries history."
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Brian O’Hara, Minneapolis Police Chief:
"There is no question in this case that this shooter intended to terrorize the children, the school members of the school community, the parishioners were inside of that church. So whatever label we want to put on it is almost regardless of the fact, that it is very clear that this shooter had the intention to terrorize those innocent children."
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5. SOUNDBITE (English) Brian O’Hara, Minneapolis Police Chief:
"We have nothing in the evidence that we have acquired so far that would indicate that he is a person – that he did not lawfully purchase these weapons. He did not have a criminal history. The only thing that we are aware of is a traffic ticket. He did not have any state ordered commitments for mental health. So of everything that we have seen so far, it did not rise to the level where he would have been a person prohibited from purchasing a firearm."
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6. SOUNDBITE (English) Brian O’Hara, Minneapolis Police Chief:
"The shooter did attend mass there previously. The shooter did attend school, and the shooter’s mother was an employee of the parish previously for some time. So obviously, there is a connection between that shooter and this particular parish and this school there."
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7. SOUNDBITE (English) Brian O’Hara, Minneapolis Police Chief:
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