60 h. ago Pope Leo demands end to ‘pandemic of arms’ after Minnesota school shooting

First US pope in history prays for victims of last week’s shooting that left two children dead and 18 others injuredPope Leo XIV called for the “pandemic of arms, large and small” to end during a weekly public prayer with crowds in St Peter’s Square on Sunday that also addressed the plague of mass shootings in the US.The first US pope in history, a native of Chicago, spoke in English as he prayed for the victims of last week’s shooting during a Catholic school mass in Minnesota which saw two children killed and others seriously injured. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Minneapolis church shooter's father reveals trauma in killer's personal life

Robin Westman, 23, had only recently broken up with a romantic partner before killing two children in the horrific attack, his father James has revealed.

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4 d. ago Minneapolis church shooter's father reveals trauma in killer's personal life: Live updates

LIVE UPDATES: Robin Westman, 23, had only recently broken up with a romantic partner before killing two children in the horrific attack, his father James has revealed.

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4 d. ago Minneapolis school shooter 'had just gone through break up' before killing two kids in church attack

Transgender shooter Robin Westman had been involved with a 'significant' partner, but the relationship recently ended, the killer's father told police.

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4 d. ago Minneapolis school shooter's devout mother struggled with killer's gender swap and behavior issues

Mary Grace Westman, the mother of shooter Robin Westman, 23, was said to have confided in teachers that she wasstruggling when the would-be killer came out as transgender around five years ago.

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4 d. ago Pictured: Girl, 10, and boy, 8, killed in US Catholic school shooting as father brands killer a 'coward'

Ten-year-old Harper Moyski and eight-year-old Fletcher Merkel were killed during mass at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis on Wednesday

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4 d. ago Girl, 10, killed in Minneapolis school shooting pictured for first time

Two children and 18 other people were injured in Wednesday's shooting at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis - 18 other people were injured in the attack

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4 d. ago Fletcher Merkel and Harper Moyski identified as fatal victims of Minneapolis school shooter Robin Westman as devastated father slams 'coward' killer

LIVE UPDATES: The victims of Wednesday's deadly shooting at a Minneapolis Catholic school have been identified as eight-year-old Fletcher Merkel and 10-year-old Harper Moyski.

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5 d. ago Fletcher Merkel and Harper Moyski identified as fatal victims of Minneapolis school shooter Robin Westman as devastated father slams 'coward' killer: Live updates

LIVE UPDATES: The victims of Wednesday's deadly shooting at a Minneapolis Catholic school have been identified as eight-year-old Fletcher Merkel and 10-year-old Harper Moyski.

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5 d. ago Minneapolis school shooter 'obsessed with killing kids' fired 116 rounds

Minneapolis school shooter Robin Westman, 24, appeared to be 'obsessed with the idea of killing children' and listed the names of mass shooters on a YouTube channel, police said

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5 d. ago Neighbor watched cops take Minneapolis shooter’s family from their home as ‘surreal’ connection to killer set in

‘This was not a family you would have thought this kind of thing would happen to,’ Jim White, who lives across the street from suspected shooter Robin Westman, told The Independent

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5 d. ago Sickening first videos emerge from inside Minnesota school massacre... as child victims' haunting words are heard as they desperately flee gunman

The grim footage shows those inside the church fleeing for their lives as transgender shooter Robin Westman opened fire, killing two children in the process.

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5 d. ago Minneapolis shooter was 'tired of being trans' and had been 'brainwashed' into being female

Transgender mass shooter Robin Westman posted a chilling manifesto online before killing two children and wounding 17 others in a mass shooting at the Annunciation Catholic School and Church.

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5 d. ago Minneapolis shooter said she was 'tired of being trans' and moaned she'd 'brainwashed' herself into thinking she was female

Transgender mass shooter Robin Westman posted a chilling manifesto online before killing two children and wounding 17 others in a mass shooting at the Annunciation Catholic School and Church.

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5 d. ago Robin Westman deleted chilling YouTube video hours before Minneapolis shooting

Robin Westman, 23, has been named as the shooter who killed two children and injured 17 others at Annunciation Church in Minneapolis during mass on Wednesday morning

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5 d. ago Melania Trump calls for 'preemptive intervention' after Minnesota shooter kills two and injures 17 at Catholic school

The First Lady, a passionate advocate for children, reacted to the tragedy with a detailed call for solutions to rooting out potential future threats on social media.

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6 d. ago Minneapolis shooter told fellow students to work 'harder, faster, stronger' in yearbook photo from school where two children were killed and 17 wounded: Live updates

Three people were killed and 17 others injured after a shooter stormed a Catholic church in Minneapolis on Wednesday morning, unleashing terror on dozens of school children.

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6 d. ago From Catholic student to lunatic transgender assassin: As praying children are slaughtered, America is left looking for clues

It's difficult to imagine a more horrific crime than killing children as they pray in church, so it will be a particular challenge trying to understand the sort of person prepared to do it.

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6 d. ago Parents of Minneapolis school shooter 'demonstrably upset' after daughter kills two children and injures 17 others praying in Catholic church: Live updates

Three people were killed and 17 others injured after a shooter stormed a Catholic church in Minneapolis on Wednesday morning, unleashing terror on dozens of school children.

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6 d. ago Who is the Minneapolis school shooter? Robin Westman identified as sick obsession with child killers is revealed

Robin Westman, 23, shot through stained glass windows at children sitting on the pews inside Annunciation Catholic School's church Wednesday morning.

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