Video Shows Students Fleeing Church Moments After Minneapolis School Shooting By Bethany Brown

A father who rushed to Annunciation Catholic Church after hearing the gunfire on Wednesday, Aug. 27, has shared video of the moments following the attack that killed two children and injured 18 others.  

According to KCTV, Anders Holine pulled out his phone when he got to the Minneapolis church and started recording as he searched for his two daughters — ages 6 and 9 — who are students at the school. 

He quickly found one of them and later learned his other daughter had run down the street to a Starbucks to shelter with other students and teachers, per the outlet. 

The video, also obtained by NBC News, WBRC and CNN, shows children dressed in their school uniforms ducking and running out of the building. Some were covering their ears while others jumped over church pews to escape. 

Fifteen children between the ages of 6 and 15 sustained gunshot wounds, said Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara, adding that three adults in their 80s were also wounded.

The shooter, identified as 23-year-old Robin Westman, had reportedly barricaded the doors of the church by placing two-by-fours in the handles of the exits before shooting through the windows.

The students were gathered in the church for a Mass service at the time.

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O’Hara estimated that Westman fired dozens of rounds from three lawfully-purchased weapons — a rifle, shotgun and pistol — before dying from a self-inflicted gunshot wound behind the building.  

The FBI is now investigating the shooting as an act of domestic terrorism and a hate crime targeting Catholics, the agency’s director, Kash Patel said. 

Police have not yet determined a motive, though they are looking into a manifesto Westman reportedly left behind.