Minneapolis Catholic School Shooting: 2 Kids Killed, 17 Injured

The shooter at Annunciation Catholic School in Minnesota has been identified as Robin (Formerly Robert) Westman. He reportedly identified as transgender. His notebook includes a trans sticker with a gun on it. He also had "Kill Donald Trump" written on his gun. NYPost has… pic.twitter.com/l8hpoWZjzc

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Students and staff at Annunciation Catholic School, where classes just started on Monday, were attending mass at the time of the rampage.

A now-deleted YouTube account believed to belong to Westman shared what appeared to be a manifesto just hours before he carried out the shooting.

Police are looking into the disturbing 20-minute video, law enforcement sources told The New York Post.

The video appeared to show a drawing of the school's church. It then showed a man stabbing the drawing repeatedly as he quietly says 'I'm going to kill myself.'

Other clips posted to the YouTube account show a semi-automatic rifle and a shotgun.

A heartbroken parent who attended Wednesday morning's mass recalled how Westman fired '50 to 100 shots' as students and staff.

Dozens of children were evacuated from the church, with one nearby resident claiming many were crying and covered in blood as they were shuffled out.

One little boy who walked away from the Annunciation Church shooting told his father, 'I don't feel safe'.

Another local told the Star Tribune that he held hands with three children who suffered gunshot wounds, including one who was shot in the neck.

Medics on emergency dispatch audio obtained by the outlet reported that a 10-year-old boy with a gunshot wound to the head was being transported.

Additionally the audio said, 'We have two patients with gunshot wounds to their head in front [of the church]... we have a critical [victim] in the rear of the church.'

Bill Bienemann, who lives a couple of blocks away and has long attended Mass at Annunciation Church, said he heard dozens of shots ring out for as long as four minutes.

'I was shocked. I said, 'There's no way that could be gunfire',' he said. 'There was so much of it. It was sporadic.'

Annunciation Catholic Church and its connected grade school are located in south Minneapolis.

Dating to 1923, the prekindergarten through eighth grade school held an all-school Mass at 8:15am Wednesday morning.

Monday was the first day of school, and social media photos from that day show students in green uniforms greeting each other at bicycle racks, smiling for the camera and sitting together.

The horrific attack at Annunciation Church is the latest in a series of fatal shootings in Minneapolis in less than 24 hours.

One person was killed and six others were hurt in a shooting Tuesday afternoon outside a Catholic high school.

Police said the suspect, who escaped in a vehicle and does not appear to have been arrested since, fired around 30 rounds from a high-velocity .223 rifle.

Authorities say there is no connection between the shootings.

Hours later, two people died in two other shootings in the city.

Wednesday's school shooting also followed a spate of hoax calls about purported shootings on at least a dozen college campuses.

The bogus warnings, sometimes featuring gunshot sounds in the background, prompted universities to issue texts to 'run, hide, fight' and frightened students around the nation as the school year begins.