In the morning of the 27th local time, a shooting in a school in the city of Minneapolis, Minnesota, caused the death of two children and the injury of 17 people. This was the city's worst school shooting in the past decade. After the incident, U.S. President Trump ordered the White House and other federal and state government buildings to mourn. Trump's wife Melania also rarely spoke on social platform X, calling for the establishment of a "national early warning mechanism" to thoroughly screen potential high-risk individuals in families, schools and social media.

According to the Associated Press, CNN and other US media reports, the crime occurred in the church of a Catholic school in the south of the city. About 200 people were attending Mass at the time of the incident, most of whom were children. The 23-year-old gunman, Robin Westerman, armed with a rifle, shotgun and handgun, fired at students inside the church from outside the window at about 8:30 a.m. After committing the crime, the gunman committed suicide in the parking lot.

Minneapolis police chief O'Hara said it was a deliberate act of violence and that the gunman had no previous criminal record and acted alone. The case occurred on the third day of the start of the new school year in the United States. The injured included 14 students and three elderly people in their 80s. The two children who died were only 8 and 10 years old. The injured are in stable condition and some have been discharged from hospital. O'Hara said: "The cruelty and cowardice of shooting at a church full of children is incomprehensible."

According to the report, the school conducted regular emergency drills on weekdays and automatically locked some doors and windows during Mass. The police said that this measure probably delayed the time for the gunman to enter the room, thus reducing casualties. One student said he escaped under the protection of a friend, but his friend was shot and wounded; another 11-year-old girl hid in the basement and blocked the door with a table, thinking that she would not survive.

The FBI has now classified the case as "indigenous terrorism" and "hatred crimes against Catholic groups."Policies' preliminary investigation revealed that the gunman had posted a number of extreme content on video platforms before the attack, including weapons with the slogans "Kill Trump", "Where is your God", and papers that labeled church windows with knives. He also expressed admiration for the perpetrators of the Sandy Hook primary school shooting in 2012 and detailed the plan for the attack on the mother school. The manifesto contained extreme political positions and anti-Semitic thoughts, revealed "pathological fascination" for violence. Despite referring to political figures such as Trump as a potential target, the gunman made it clear in the video that the motive for the attack was not political appeal, but "to

The gunman also called himself a transgender person. His mother filed a name change application for him in 2019, saying ¡°Westman thus changed his name as a woman.¡± The police revealed that the gunman had a ¡°personal connection¡± with the school of the incident, and that his mother had also held administrative positions at the school until his retirement in 2021. The motive for the murderer was unclear, and the officers thought it could involve multiple hate feelings such as religion, politics or psychology. It is worth noting that Westman holds a legitimate gun purchase license in Minnesota, and all of the weapons involved were recently purchased through formal channels. The New York Times commented that the shooting once again exposed the gaps in the U.S. background censorship system, meaning that many of the perpetrators had no criminal records or were

According to the U.S. Arms Violence Archive website, there have been at least 286 group sex shootings in the U.S. this year (referring to more than four people injured or killed in addition to the gunman).