🇺🇸⚡️- 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.

🇺🇸⚡️- "We believe it is one suspect. He is in his early 20s, and does not have a known criminal history. We are looking through information left behind to determine some type of motive." - Brian O'Hara, Minneapolis Chief of Police.

🇺🇸⚡️- "This shooting does not appear to be related to any other shootings in the city." - Brian O'Hara, Minneapolis Chief of Police.

🇺🇸⚡️- An unnamed Minneapolis Police Department officer suddenly interjected and interrupted the questionnaire from the press, ending the briefing.