Officials have commended the actions of older children and adults during a mass shooting at the Annuncation Church in Minneapolis. As a lone shooter carried out a mass shooting that killed two children and injured 15 other children and three adults, children were protecting other children. “Adults were protecting children, older children were protecting younger children,” he said. After Minneapolis mass shooting, two Minnesota leaders push for gun reform After deadly Minneapolis mass shooting, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison push for federal, state and local gun reform. “I can tell you that all the kids at the school are kids to all of us,” he says.