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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Claudia Lauer,Mark Vancleave and Scott Bauer

A year after Minneapolis Catholic school shooting, documents detail swift response, little on motive

School Shooting Minneapolis - (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

Documents released a year after the deadly shooting at a Minneapolis Catholic church and school provide a detailed account of the swift and widespread response by law enforcement officers — who arrived within minutes and began triaging injured students.

But the nearly 1,500 photos and hundreds of pages cataloging witness interviews, evidence and officer accounts of the shooting at Annunciation Church and School don't shed much light on why 23-year-old Robin Westman launched the Aug. 27, 2025, attack that killed 8-year-old Fletcher Merkel and 10-year-old Harper Moyski. At least 21 other children and adults were wounded before Westman died by suicide.

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