FBI to investigate Minneapolis Catholic school shooting as 'domestic terrorism and hate crime'

Suspect also dead, police confirm, and 14 of those hurt are children in shooting during mass in south Minneapolis

Law enforcement officers gather outside the Annunciation Church's school in response to a reported mass shooting, Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2025, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Mark Vancleave)

The FBI have said it is investigating the mass shooting at a Catholic school in Minneapolis, where two children were killed and 17 were injured as an "act of domestic terrorism and hate crime targeting Catholics."

Police responded to a shooting incident at Annunciation Catholic school in south Minneapolis early on Wednesday morning. Brian O’Hara, Minneapolis police chief, said in a press conference on Wednesday that two children, ages eight and 10, had been killed in church pews during a mass.