🇺🇸⚡️- The resident reports, citing a friend who managed to escape the shooting, that 'splintered wood' was shot everywhere. Today was also the first day of all-school mass, for all of Kindergarten through 8th grade, when the shooting took place.

🇺🇸⚡️- Another local reports "several" fatalities.

🇺🇸⚡️- "I have been fully briefed on the tragic shooting in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The FBI quickly responded and they are on scene. The White House will continue to monitor this terrible situation. Please join me in praying for everyone involved!" - Donald Trump, US President, in a statement on TRUTH Social.

🇺🇸⚡️- CBS News Minnesota is now reporting upwards of 20 victims- still no confirmation on how many fatalities.

🇺🇸⚡️- ABC News is reporting that the shooting took place during student drop-off, while eyewitnesses are reporting that the shooting took place during morning mass.

🇺🇸⚡️- Minneapolis Police Department to hold a press conference in 30 minutes.

🇺🇸⚡️- Initial reports: the attacker committed suicide following the shooting.

Pray for the victims of the Minneapolis Catholic Church shooting. Absolutely horrible.

🇺🇸⚡️- "An Annunciation parent who was sitting in the back pew at the 8:15AM mass said students were packed into the pews when the shooter opened fire outside the building with some kind of semiautomatic weapon.

'He just pepper-sprayed through the stained-glass windows into the building, 50-100 shots,' said the parent. 'He killed two kids.'" - Minnesota Star Tribune, local media, citing an unnamed survivor.

🇺🇸⚡️- An unnamed official from the Department of Justice reports 3 fatalities and 20 injuries at the Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

🇺🇸⚡️- NBC News confirms that the suspect died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

🇺🇸⚡️- ABC News reports that 10 people in critical condition.

🇺🇸⚡️- A Minneapolis children's hospital reports that it is treating 5 children who were injured in today's shooting, according to Associated Press.

Hennepin County medical officials report that multiple more children have been admitted- although they did not specify how many.

🇺🇸⚡️- Minneapolis Police Department press briefing on today's shooting to begin in 3 minutes.

🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- Heavy Israeli ground movement in Bait Jin, al-Qunaitra countryside, southern Syria, for the past 4 hours.

Israeli recon drones operating over southern Syria as well.

🇺🇸⚡️- Press briefing has begun.

🇺🇸⚡️- Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey is speaking- highly politicized and emotional. We will not be transcribing it.

🇺🇸⚡️- Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara has taken the podium.

🇺🇸⚡️- "Just before 8:30AM, our city experienced an unthinkable tragedy. Minneapolis police officers responded to a report of a shooting at a mass of the Annunciation Roman Catholic Church. This service was marking the first week of school for children that are attending the Annunciation Catholic School. During the mass, a gunman approached on the outside and began firing a rifle through the church windows at the children sitting in the pews at the mass." - Brian O'Hara, Minneapolis Chief of Police.

🇺🇸⚡️- "The shooter was armed with a rifle, a shotgun, and a pistol. This was a deliberate act of violence against innocent children and other worshippers." - Brian O'Hara, Minneapolis Chief of Police.

🇺🇸⚡️- "Two young children, ages 8 and 10, were killed in the pews. Their parents have been notified. 17 other people were injured, 14 of them being children. 2 of those children are in critical condition. The coward who fired these shots ultimately took his own life at the rear of the church." - Brian O'Hara, Minneapolis Chief of Police.