HCMC ER Director Recalls All-Hands-on-Deck Response After Annunciation Mass Shooting
- Minneapolis observed Annunciation Remembrance Day on Thursday, August 27, marking the one-year anniversary of the mass shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church and School with community events, church bells ringing at 8:26 a.m., and prayers.
- On August 27, 2025, a shooter attacked during an all-school Mass, killing 8-year-old Fletcher Merkel and 10-year-old Harper Moyski and wounding 30 others before dying by suicide at the scene.
- Law enforcement released a 2,648-page investigative report detailing the police response and scene evidence, yet the nearly 1,500 photos and witness accounts provide limited insight into 23-year-old Robin Westman's motive.
- Survivors and families channel grief into community support, guided by Principal Matt DeBoer's mantra, "When you pray, move your feet," which inspired the One More Story Collective to preserve survivor memories.
- Minnesota Democrats push for gun control legislation, while Republicans emphasize school safety and mental health initiatives, leaving families to advocate for stricter measures at the next legislative session.
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Your daily news roundup starts … NOW. Yesterday marked the one-year anniversary of the shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church and School. At Pearl Park in south Minneapolis near the school, community members gathered for a day of service. “What we do is come around each other. We hold each other through the hardest of events, and that’s what you’re seeing today, is a culmination of that effort, that love, hope and joy that we do here in the c…
HCMC ER director recalls all-hands-on-deck response after Annunciation mass shooting
Less than 15 minutes: That's how much time the staff at HCMC in Minneapolis had to prepare for the task of a lifetime. There was a mass shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church.
Community gathers in Minneapolis to remember Annunciation victims a year after shooting
Dozens gathered at Pearl Park in in Minneapolis on Thursday to drop off food, plant trees and assemble care packages for homeless youth in memory of the children and families scarred by the deadly mass shooting at the Church of Annunciation one year ago. The public remembrance took place a mile from Annunciation Catholic Church […]
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