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FBI investigating Minnesota school shooting as a hate crime against Catholics
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(Photo: Reuters / Andrew Gombert / Pool)Dannel Malloy, Governor of Connecticut speaks to mourners gathered at a vigil service for victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut in Decmeber 2012.
His statement came after a deadly mass shooting took place the morning of Aug. 27 at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis shortly after the start of the school day during an all-school Mass at the adjacent Annunciation Catholic Church.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Westman "targeted our most vulnerable: young children praying in their first morning Mass of the school year."
Two children, ages 8 and 10, were killed in the shooting at Annunciation Church in Minneapolis.
The mass shooting at Annunciation appears to be the first of its kind involving a Catholic school since the 1999 Columbine High School massacre in Littleton, Colorado.
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