LIVE: Minneapolis Catholic school shooter IDed

Two children were killed and 17 other people were injured in a shooting at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis on Wednesday morning. The gunman, who fired from outside through the church windows as children worshiped, killed himself.

An 8-year-old child and 10-year-old child were killed in the shooting. Adults and children, including a child as young as 6, are among those injured in the shooting.

In addition to AP, FOX 9 sources identified the shooter as Robin Westman. FOX 9 has confirmed Westman’s mother previously worked at Annunciation. The shooter’s mother also applied to change her child’s name from Robert to Robin in Dakota County in 2019, according to court documents obtained by FOX 9. According to the name change filing, Westman identified "as a female and wants her name to reflect that identification."

Police said the suspect was dressed in black and armed with a rifle, pistol and shotgun when he fired through the church's windows toward children sitting in the pews during their first week back at school. Authorities have only formally identified the suspect as someone in their 20s who did not have an extensive criminal history. He's believed to have acted alone.

The church and school are on the 500 block of West 54th Street in south Minneapolis, near the intersection of 54th and Lyndale. The school is for pre-kindergarten through eighth-graders, and in the 2023-24 school there were 391 students enrolled. Students started school on Monday.

Police began responding to the scene around 8:27 a.m. Neighbors reported hearing significant gunfire, so much that they didn't think it was actually gunfire.

The FBI, ATF, Homeland Security, the Minnesota State Patrol, and local authorities are on the scene. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey is also at the scene.