Heartbreaking photos show students at the Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis happily celebrating their return to classes this week just days before Wednesday morning’s deadly mass shooting.
The pictures, shared on the school’s Instagram and Facebook pages Monday, show students wearing ear-to-ear smiles in their uniforms sitting on a staircase outside the school and excitedly huddling together over a cafeteria table.
The celebratory pictures featured the hashtag, #AFutureFilledwithHope.
Students at the Annunciation Catholic School had returned to school this week before Wednesday morning’s shooting. Annunciation School MSP
The post included a picture of the happy students chatting away with their friends and classmates. Annunciation School MSP
But the hopeful start to the new school year was soon violently shattered when a deranged shooter opened fire through the stained glass windows of the school’s church during a celebratory back-to-school Mass.
Here is the latest on the mass shooting at a Minneapolis Catholic school:
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The gunman, identified by authorities as Robin Westman, 23, killed at least two students and injured 17 more, many of them children, before cops said the deranged killer died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
